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Relevance

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Same as relevancy.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The quality or state of being relevant; pertinency; applicability.
  • noun. Sufficiency to infer the conclusion.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The property or state of being relevant or pertinent.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the relation of something to the matter at hand
  • Word Usage
    "˜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."
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