"relevance" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈɹɛl.ɪ.vən(t)s/, /ˈɹɛl.ə.vən(t)s/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vininn126-relevance.wav [US] Forms: relevances [plural]
Etymology: relevant + -ance. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|relevant|ance}} relevant + -ance Head templates: {{en-noun|-|s}} relevance (usually uncountable, plural relevances)
  1. The property or state of being relevant or pertinent. Wikipedia link: relevance Tags: uncountable, usually Synonyms: bearing, pertinence, relevancy (english: much less common) Derived forms: relevance conditional, relevance logic Related terms: relevant Translations (property or state of being relevant, pertinency): عَلَاقَة (ʕalāqa) [feminine] (Arabic), صِلَة (ṣila) [feminine] (Arabic), уместност (umestnost) [feminine] (Bulgarian), rellevància [feminine] (Catalan), 相關性 (Chinese Mandarin), 相关性 (xiāngguānxìng) (Chinese Mandarin), význam [masculine] (Czech), relevantie [feminine] (Dutch), relevanssi (Finnish), asiaankuuluvuus (Finnish), pertinence [feminine] (French), Relevanz [feminine] (German), Aktualität [feminine] (German), Belang [masculine] (German), σχέση (schési) [feminine] (Greek), συνάφεια (synáfeia) [feminine] (Greek), relevansi (Indonesian), ábharthacht [feminine] (Irish), rilevanza (Italian), importanza (Italian), attualità (Italian), 関連性 (kanrensei) (alt: かんれんせい) (Japanese), релеванттық (relevanttyq) (Kazakh), kerelevanan (Malay), പ്രസക്തി (prasakti) (Malayalam), bentynys [masculine] (Manx), hāngaitanga (Maori), istotność [feminine] (Polish), relevância [feminine] (Portuguese), relevanță [feminine] (Romanian), pertinență [feminine] (Romanian), актуа́льность (aktuálʹnostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), уме́стность (uméstnostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), релева́нтность (relevántnostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), relevantnost (Serbo-Croatian), važnost (Serbo-Croatian), umjesnost (Serbo-Croatian), relevancia [feminine] (Spanish), relevans [common-gender] (Swedish), ilgililik (Turkish)

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          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "property or state of being relevant, pertinency",
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          "code": "fr",
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          "sense": "property or state of being relevant, pertinency",
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          "code": "de",
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          "code": "gv",
          "lang": "Manx",
          "sense": "property or state of being relevant, pertinency",
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          "word": "bentynys"
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          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "property or state of being relevant, pertinency",
          "word": "hāngaitanga"
        },
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          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "property or state of being relevant, pertinency",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
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        },
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          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "property or state of being relevant, pertinency",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
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          "code": "ro",
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          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
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        },
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          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "property or state of being relevant, pertinency",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "pertinență"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "aktuálʹnostʹ",
          "sense": "property or state of being relevant, pertinency",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "актуа́льность"
        },
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          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "uméstnostʹ",
          "sense": "property or state of being relevant, pertinency",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "уме́стность"
        },
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          "code": "ru",
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          "roman": "relevántnostʹ",
          "sense": "property or state of being relevant, pertinency",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "релева́нтность"
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          "code": "sh",
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          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
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          "code": "es",
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          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
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          "word": "ilgililik"
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      "tags": [
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      "code": "ca",
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      "sense": "property or state of being relevant, pertinency",
      "tags": [
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      "code": "cmn",
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      "word": "相關性"
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      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
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      "word": "relevanssi"
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
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      "word": "asiaankuuluvuus"
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      "code": "de",
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      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "Relevanz"
    },
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "property or state of being relevant, pertinency",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "Aktualität"
    },
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "property or state of being relevant, pertinency",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "Belang"
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      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "schési",
      "sense": "property or state of being relevant, pertinency",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "σχέση"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "synáfeia",
      "sense": "property or state of being relevant, pertinency",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "συνάφεια"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "property or state of being relevant, pertinency",
      "word": "relevansi"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "property or state of being relevant, pertinency",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ábharthacht"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "property or state of being relevant, pertinency",
      "word": "rilevanza"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "property or state of being relevant, pertinency",
      "word": "importanza"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "property or state of being relevant, pertinency",
      "word": "attualità"
    },
    {
      "alt": "かんれんせい",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "kanrensei",
      "sense": "property or state of being relevant, pertinency",
      "word": "関連性"
    },
    {
      "code": "kk",
      "lang": "Kazakh",
      "roman": "relevanttyq",
      "sense": "property or state of being relevant, pertinency",
      "word": "релеванттық"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "property or state of being relevant, pertinency",
      "word": "kerelevanan"
    },
    {
      "code": "ml",
      "lang": "Malayalam",
      "roman": "prasakti",
      "sense": "property or state of being relevant, pertinency",
      "word": "പ്രസക്തി"
    },
    {
      "code": "gv",
      "lang": "Manx",
      "sense": "property or state of being relevant, pertinency",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "bentynys"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "property or state of being relevant, pertinency",
      "word": "hāngaitanga"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "property or state of being relevant, pertinency",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "istotność"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "property or state of being relevant, pertinency",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "relevância"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "property or state of being relevant, pertinency",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "relevanță"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "property or state of being relevant, pertinency",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "pertinență"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "aktuálʹnostʹ",
      "sense": "property or state of being relevant, pertinency",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "актуа́льность"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "uméstnostʹ",
      "sense": "property or state of being relevant, pertinency",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "уме́стность"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "relevántnostʹ",
      "sense": "property or state of being relevant, pertinency",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "релева́нтность"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "property or state of being relevant, pertinency",
      "word": "relevantnost"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "property or state of being relevant, pertinency",
      "word": "važnost"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "property or state of being relevant, pertinency",
      "word": "umjesnost"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "property or state of being relevant, pertinency",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "relevancia"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "property or state of being relevant, pertinency",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "relevans"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "property or state of being relevant, pertinency",
      "word": "ilgililik"
    }
  ],
  "word": "relevance"
}

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