relevance

rel·e·vance

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- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
- UK Pronunciation
- UK IPA
- [rel-uh-vuh ns]
- /ˈrɛl ə vəns/
- /ˈrel.ə.vəns/

- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
- [rel-uh-vuh ns]
- /ˈrɛl ə vəns/

Definitions of relevance word

noun relevance the condition of being relevant, or connected with the matter at hand: Some traditional institutions of the media lack relevance in this digital age. 1
noun relevance effect, connection 1
noun Technical meaning of relevance (information science) A measure of how closely a given object (file, web page, database record, etc.) matches a user's search for information. The relevance algorithms used in most large web search engines today are based on fairly simple word-occurence measurement: if the word "daffodil" occurs on a given page, then that page is considered relevant to a query on the word "daffodil"; and its relevance is quantised as a factor of the number of times the word occurs in the page, on whether "daffodil" occurs in title of the page or in its META keywords, in the first N words of the page, in a heading, and so on; and similarly for words that a stemmer says are based on "daffodil". More elaborate (and resource-expensive) relevance algorithms may involve thesaurus (or synonym ring) lookup; e.g. it might rank a document about narcissuses (but which may not mention the word "daffodil" anywhere) as relevant to a query on "daffodil", since narcissuses and daffodils are basically the same thing. Ditto for queries on "jail" and "gaol", etc. More elaborate forms of thesaurus lookup may involve multilingual thesauri (e.g. knowing that documents in Japanese which mention the Japanese word for "narcissus" are relevant to your search on "narcissus"), or may involve thesauri (often auto-generated) based not on equivalence of meaning, but on word-proximity, such that "bulb" or "bloom" may be in the thesaurus entry for "daffodil". See also subject index. 1
uncountable noun relevance Something's relevance to a situation or person is its importance or significance in that situation or to that person. 0

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Parts of speech for Relevance

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relevance popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 93% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.

This word is included in each student's vocabulary. Most likely there is at least one movie with this word in the title.

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Synonyms for relevance

noun relevance

applicability — applying or capable of being applied; relevant; suitable; appropriate: an applicable rule; a solution that is applicable to the problem.
application — An application for something such as a job or membership of an organization is a formal written request for it.
bearing — Someone's bearing is the way in which they move or stand.
cogency — the quality or condition of being cogent; power to convince
concernment — affair or business; concern

All 31 Synonyms of relevance

Antonyms for relevance

noun relevance

irrelevance — the quality or condition of being irrelevant.

Just one Antonym for relevance

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