Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
relevancy .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being relevant; pertinency; applicability.
- noun (Scots Law) Sufficiency to infer the conclusion.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The property or state of being
relevant orpertinent .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the relation of something to the matter at hand
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Examples
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˜Relevance™ in relevance theory, then, should not be taken to be just our ordinary conception of relevance; nor should it be equated with the ˜relevance™ of Grice's maxim, although it is connected to that and intended to provide a deepened understanding of what underlies the maxim.
Pragmatics Korta, Kepa 2006
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I think that "bookstores are declining in relevance" is a little harsh.
User Generated Book Tours Lou Anders 2008
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I think that "bookstores are declining in relevance" is a little harsh.
Archive 2008-08-01 Lou Anders 2008
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And just as Murdoch symbolised the mainstream media industry at the peak of its power and used its influence so deftly, so his decline in relevance is a sharp reminder that the media establishment is all in the same boat.
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As far as the title relevance is concerned I must simply disagree with both you and el_gramador.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
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As far as the title relevance is concerned I must simply disagree with both you and el_gramador.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
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As far as the title relevance is concerned I must simply disagree with both you and el_gramador.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
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We've also changed as we mentioned last year, kind of our focus on what we call relevance, which is which problems are we going to solve, how efficacious are our solutions for solving those problems, but also going to accessibility and scalability and going from being course centric to more resource centric.
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We've also changed as we mentioned last year, kind of our focus on what we call relevance, which is which problems are we going to solve, how efficacious are our solutions for solving those problems, but also going to accessibility and scalability and going from being course centric to more resource centric.
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We've also changed as we mentioned last year, kind of our focus on what we call relevance, which is which problems are we going to solve, how efficacious are our solutions for solving those problems, but also going to accessibility and scalability and going from being course centric to more resource centric.
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