Definition of "rating"

rating

/ˈɹeɪtɪŋ/

verb
1. present participle and gerund of rate
noun
plural ratings
1. A position on a scale.
2. An evaluation of status, especially of financial status.
3. A number, letter, or other mark that refers to the ability of something.
4. A quantitative measure of the audience of a television program.
  Quotations
  A rating, at best, is an indication of how many people saw what you gave them.
  1961 May 9, Newton N. Minow, Television and the Public Interest
5. (nautical) A seaman in a warship.
  Quotations
  Some 400 Russian ratings are living in the western French port, awaiting delivery of their controversial new command-and-control ship, the Vladivostok.
  2014, BBC News, Huge Russian warship fascinates French in Saint-Nazaire‎
6. (nautical, Britain) An enlisted seaman not a commissioned officer or warrant officer.
  Quotations
  Fifty officers and seven hundred and fifty ratings from the two British ships were picked up by the Japanese, together with the survivors from the Pope
  1950, Winston S. Churchill, “The Hinge of Fate”, in The Second World War, volume 4, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 149