significance
IPA: sʌgnˈɪfɪkʌns
noun
- The extent to which something matters; importance
- Meaning.
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Examples of "significance" in Sentences
- That, too, alters in significance with shifts in Brian Engel's savvy lighting.
- One way you could cue the readers to its significance is to overdo the style in a caricaturish way.
- That may be the longer-term significance of yesterday's initiative – and in time it will have to involve Mr Clegg as well.
- The easiest way to prevent statistical significance is by using a pathetically small number of subjects in your experiment.
- The death of Osama bin Laden may or may not have great long-term significance, but there is no denying its immediate impact.
- I love contemplative first person narratives, in which nothing happens and yet everything of significance is profoundly altered.
- In scholarly writing, the term significance refers to a very specialized statistical feature known in most fields as statistical significance.
- The temptation to view sports events as symbolizing matters of larger significance is too infrequently resisted, but the second Louis-Schmeling fight merits the distinction.
- Cannadine suggests: "In its length, its range, its importance, its accomplishments and its long-term significance, Andrew Mellon's was one of the biggest American lives of its times."
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