RA Texting Abbreviation

Research Assistant

Rate

The price of a transport service. Quantity, amount or degree measured or applied. Old scale for classing of warships Based on number of guns carried; first rate carried 100 or more guns; fifth rate carried 32 to 40 Lowest rate was 'sixth'. Rate of a chronometer is the amount it gains or loses in 24 hrs

Range

The difference between the highest and lowest values of a measurable attribute of the output of a process. An area between two limits within which a quantity is measured, stated in terms of a lower and upper limits. The categorization of an attribute into different segments. The set of values that a quantity or function may take.