Ranging meaning : To travel over (an area, etc); to roam, wander. To rove over or through. To exercise the power of something over something else; to cause to submit to, over. To bring (something) into a specified position or relationship (especially, of opposition) with something else. (followed by over) Of a variable, to be able to take any of the values in a specified range. To classify. To form a line or a row. To be placed in order; to be ranked; to admit of arrangement or classification; to rank. To set in a row, or in rows; to place in a regular line or lines, or in ranks; to dispose in the proper order. To place among others in a line, row, or order, as in the ranks of an army; usually, reflexively and figuratively, to espouse a cause, to join a party, etc. To be native to, or live in, a certain district or region. To separate into parts; to sift. To sail or pass in a direction parallel to or near. Of a player, to travel a significant distance for a defensive play. Act of one who ranges. A back-and-forth movement