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significance

noun
/sɪɡˈnɪfɪkəns/UK

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English significaunce, from Middle French significance, from Old French significance, from Latin significantia. Doublet of signifiance.

  1. derived from significantia
  2. derived from significance
  3. derived from significance
  4. inherited from significaunce

Definitions

  1. The extent to which something matters

    The extent to which something matters; importance

    • As a juror your opinion is of great significance for the outcome of the trial.
    • Of more significance in the nature of branch development; in the Jubulaceae, as in the Porellaceae, branches are acroscopic and normally replace a ventral leaf lobe.

  2. Meaning.

    • the significance of her gesture was unclear

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Derived

act of independent significance, insignificance, nonsignificance, significs, Tukey's honest significance test, unsignificance

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at significance. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at significance. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at significance

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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