{
  "id": "rating.evaluation",
  "term": "rating",
  "sense": "evaluation",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 9,
  "arena": "EmergenceLexicon",
  "domain": "rating",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a number that is the difference.relation of a thing with a usual thing",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "number.quantity",
      "difference.relation",
      "usual.common"
    ],
    "interaction": "the number is the size.measurement of the difference.relation between the thing and the usual",
    "novel_properties": [
      "quantified evaluation",
      "ordered ranking"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The 2020 U.S. News & World Report ranked Johns Hopkins Hospital #1 in the nation for cardiology and heart surgery.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Richter scale assigned the 1906 San Francisco earthquake a magnitude of 7.9 based on seismic wave amplitude.",
      "domain": "physics"
    },
    {
      "text": "Amazon customers gave the 'Anker PowerCore 10000' a 4.8-star rating from over 50,000 reviews.",
      "domain": "economics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "number.quantity",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "burnout.capacity",
    "decay.process",
    "grip.constraint",
    "layer.stratum",
    "neglect.omission",
    "resilience.recovery-rate",
    "scarcity.condition",
    "symmetry-versus-regularity-licence.licence"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "rate",
    "rated",
    "rates",
    "rating",
    "ratings"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-rating.evaluation"
}