Definition of Significance. Meaning of Significance. Synonyms of Significance

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Definition of Significance

Significance
Significance Sig*nif"i*cance, Significancy Sig*nif"i*can*cy, n. [L. significantia.] 1. The quality or state of being significant. 2. That which is signified; meaning; import; as, the significance of a nod, of a motion of the hand, or of a word or expression. 3. Importance; moment; weight; consequence. With this brain I must work, in order to give significancy and value to the few facts which I possess. --De Quincey.

Meaning of Significance from wikipedia

- Look up significance in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Significance is a synonym for importance. It can also refer to: Significance (magazine), a magazine...
- In statistical hypothesis testing, a result has statistical significance when a result at least as "extreme" would be very infrequent if the null hypothesis...
- Fisher and others to dismiss the use of "inverse probabilities". Modern significance testing is largely the product of Karl Pearson (p-value, Pearson's chi-squared...
- City of federal subject significance is an administrative division of a federal subject of Russia which is equal in status to a district but is organized...
- Historical significance is a historiographical key concept that explores and s****s to explain the selection of particular social and cultural past events...
- Monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS) is a plasma cell dyscrasia in which plasma cells or other types of antibody-producing cells secrete...
- The doctrine of acts of independent significance at common law permits a testator to effectively change the disposition of his property without changing...
- In medicine and psychology, clinical significance is the practical importance of a treatment effect—whether it has a real genuine, palpable, noticeable...
- Significance, established in 2004, is a bimonthly print and digital magazine published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Statistical Society...
- City of district significance (or importance) is a type of an administrative division in some countries of the former Soviet Union. in Russia; see town...