In this paper, we introduce fuzzy rank functions for groupoids, and we investigate their roles in the semigroup of binary systems by using the notions of right parallelisms and [Formula: see text]-shrinking groupoids.
Keywords: (Fuzzy) rank-d-function; (Fuzzy) rank-subalgebra; (Fuzzy) symmetric-rank-function; Bin(X); Right parallel; Selective; [Formula: see text]-Shrinking.