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Finance

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Rate (company) Guaranteed Rate Companies, doing business as Rate, is an American residential mortgage company headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. Founded in 2000 by Victor Ciardelli, the company had $55 billion in funded volume in 2022, down 25% since 2020. As ...
, an American residential mortgage company formerly known as Guaranteed Rate *
Rates (tax) Rates are a type of property tax system in the United Kingdom, and in places with systems deriving from the British one, the proceeds of which are used to fund local government. Some other countries have taxes with a more or less comparable rol ...
, a type of taxation system in the United Kingdom used to fund local government *
Exchange rate In finance, an exchange rate is the rate at which one currency will be exchanged for another currency. Currencies are most commonly national currencies, but may be sub-national as in the case of Hong Kong or supra-national as in the case of ...
, rate at which one currency will be exchanged for another


Mathematics and science

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Rate (mathematics) In mathematics, a rate is the quotient of two quantities, often represented as a fraction. If the divisor (or fraction denominator) in the rate is equal to one expressed as a single unit, and if it is assumed that this quantity can be changed s ...
, a specific kind of ratio, in which two measurements are related to each other (often with respect to time) * Rate function, a function used to quantify the probabilities of a rare event *
Reaction rate The reaction rate or rate of reaction is the speed at which a chemical reaction takes place, defined as proportional to the increase in the concentration of a product per unit time and to the decrease in the concentration of a reactant per u ...
, in chemistry the speed at which reactants are converted into products


Military

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Naval rate In military terminology, a rate or rating (also known as bluejacket in the United States) is a junior enlisted sailor in a navy who is below the military rank of warrant officer. Depending on the country and navy that uses it, the exact term ...
, a junior enlisted member of a navy *
Rating system of the Royal Navy The rating system of the Royal Navy and its predecessors was used by the Royal Navy between the beginning of the 17th century and the middle of the 19th century to categorise sailing warships, initially classing them according to their assi ...
, a former method of indicating a British warship's firepower


People

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Ed Rate Ed, ed or ED may refer to: Arts and entertainment * ''Ed'' (film), a 1996 film starring Matt LeBlanc * Ed (''Fullmetal Alchemist'') or Edward Elric, a character in ''Fullmetal Alchemist'' media * ''Ed'' (TV series), a TV series that ran fro ...
(1899–1990), American football player *
José Carlos Rates José Carlos Rates (19 February 1879 – 21 January 1961) was the first General Secretary of the Portuguese Communist Party, after the Party's foundation in 1921. Rates was chosen, in 1923, to lead the Party by the delegate of the Communist Inte ...
(1879–1945), General Secretary of the Portuguese Communist Party *
Peter of Rates Peter of Rates (), also known in English as Peter of Braga, is traditionally considered to be the first bishop of Braga between the years AD 45 and 60. Tradition says he was ordered to preach the Christian faith by James the Great, and that ...
(died 60 AD), traditionally considered to be the first bishop of Braga


Other uses

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Rate (building) The Building Act 1774 (14 Geo. 3. c. 78), formally known as the Fires Prevention (Metropolis) Act 1774, was an Act of Parliament (United Kingdom), act of the Parliament of Great Britain passed in 1774 to consolidate earlier legislation and to ...
, the class of a building in late Georgian and early Victorian construction standards *
Rates (Póvoa de Varzim) Rates () is a Portuguese parish and a former township located in the municipality of Póvoa de Varzim Póvoa de Varzim () is a Portugal, Portuguese city in Norte Region, Portugal, Northern Portugal and sub-region of Greater Porto, from i ...
, a Portuguese parish and town located in the municipality of Póvoa de Varzim *
Rate Bowl The Rate Bowl is an annual college football bowl game that has been played in the state of Arizona since 1989, under several different names. Played as the Copper Bowl from inception through 1996, it was known as the Insight.com Bowl from 1997 ...
, an American postseason college football bowl game *
RATE project The Institute for Creation Research (ICR) is a creationist apologetics institute in Dallas, Texas, that specializes in media promotion of pseudoscience, pseudoscientific creation science and interpretation of the Genesis creation narrative as a ...
, a young earth creationism research project


See also

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Rate of change (disambiguation) Rate of change may refer to: * Rate of change (mathematics), either average rate of change or instantaneous rate of change ** Instantaneous rate of change, rate of change at a given instant in time * Rate of change (technical analysis), a simple ...
* Rating (disambiguation) * Ratio (disambiguation) {{disambiguation, surname