significance
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
significance/sɪɡˈnɪfɪkəns/
▶noun
- 1 the quality of being significant; importance.
- 2 the unstated meaning to be found in words or events.
- 3 (also statistical significance) the extent to which a result deviates from that expected to arise simply from random variation or errors in sampling.
– origin ME: from OFr., or from L. significantia, from significare ‘indicate, portend’.
'significance' also found in these Oxford entries:
appreciate
- appreciation
- desacralize
- discount
- eclipse
- equipollent
- expendable
- explain
- fives
- has-been
- home
- important
- interpret
- irony
- issue of fact
- keyword
- least
- meaningless
- minor
- moment
- momentous
- mystical
- nothing
- nowheresville
- numerology
- operative
- perishable
- ponderable
- portent
- pregnant
- read
- rimland
- sacrament
- significant
- Student's t-test
- totem
- understand
- unknown quantity
- well worn
