significance

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significance
sɪɡˈnɪfɪk(ə)ns Listen
Meanings
noun
  • the quality of being worthy of attention; importance.
    E.g. adolescent education was felt to be a social issue of some significance
  • the meaning to be found in words or events.
    E.g. the significance of what was happening was clearer to me than to her
  • the extent to which a result deviates from that expected to arise simply from random variation or errors in sampling.

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