Relevance

Definition: Relevance

Relevance

Noun

1. The relation of something to the matter at hand.

Date "relevance" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1754. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Computing	Relevance 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". Word spamming essentially attempts to falsely increase a web page's relevance to certain common searches. See also subject index. (1997-04-09). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.
Politics & International Affaires	The extent to which the activities and results of a project are in harmony with the intended impacts and goals. Source: European Union. (references)
Statistics	Shall mean that the production of Community statistics is a function of clearly defined requirements determined by the Community objectives. These requirements determine the fields, timeliness and scale of statistics, which should keep abreast of new demographic, economic, social and environmental developments at all times. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Relevance

Synonym: relevancy (n). (additional references)

Antonym: irrelevance (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Relevance

English words defined with "relevance": applicability, applicable ♦ certificate, close, cogency, crucial ♦ dead, dead letter, development, digressive, distant ♦ immaterial ♦ live ♦ materiality ♦ non sequitur, non-issue ♦ pertinence, pertinency, pertinent ♦ relevant, relevantly ♦ security ♦ tangential, to the point ♦ very. (references)

Specialty definitions using "relevance": cultural studies ♦ Ecofacts ♦ PASSPORT-APPLICATION EXAMINER, pertinence ratio, Planning Assistance through Technical Evaluation of Relevance Numbers, precision ratio ♦ relevance factor, relevance ratio ♦ subject index ♦ word spamming. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Relevance" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Czech (relevance).

Domain	Title
Books	God's Law in the Modern World: The Continuing Relevance of Old Testament Law (reference) Kalecki's Relevance Today (reference) New Roles and Relevance : Development NGOs and the Challenge of Change (reference) Psychanodia: A Survey of the Evidence Concerning the Ascension of the Soul and Its Relevance (reference) Relevance Lost: The Rise and Fall of Management Accounting (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Relevance (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		The search results are shown by order of relevance. (references)
		R.T. et al. Clinical relevance of cannabis tolerance and dependence. (references)
		From there, results can be sorted by publication date, author, or relevance. (references)
Business		Each study consists of analysis, statistics, forecasts, and information of relevance to managers. (references)
		Covering over 190 countries, each study consists of forward-looking analysis, statistics, forecasts, and information of relevance to managers. (references)
		The advertising is directed, in the main, toward owners of older cars stressing the relevance of immobilizers and the like to protect their vehicles from opportunist thieves. (references)
Economic History	Brazil	This approach is changing, however, as labor and management have become more flexible and collective bargaining has assumed greater relevance. (references)
	Bulgaria	There are also no toll-free telephone services offered by BTC. For the time being, direct marketing techniques may have more relevance to larger urban areas. (references)
	Netherlands	Where the activities of the company are actually conducted is of no relevance in establishing nationality if the company's principal administrative office is in the Netherlands. (references)
Trade	Thailand	To abide by the GATT Valuation System (GVS), Thailand announced its new customs valuation scheme on March 8, 2000, which became effective on January 1, 2000 . Under the new system, there are 6 methods in order of relevance to calculate the import duty. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Relevance" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.46% of the time. "Relevance" is used about 1,661 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	99.46%	1,652	5,051
Noun (proper)	0.54%	9	117,287
Total	100.00%	1,661	N/A

Expressions using "relevance": Planning Assistance through Technical Evaluation of Relevance Numbers ♦ relevance factor ♦ relevance ratio. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "relevance": relevance----------------prominence------------deviance, relevance-theoretic.
	Ending with "relevance": applications-relevance.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "relevance"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		lidhje (affinity, alliance, bandage, bearing, binding, bond, bracer, bracing, catena, communication, confederate, confederation, conjunction, connection, connexion, contact, cord, coupling, dressing, federation, join, joining, joint, knot, league, ligament, ligature, link, link up, linkage, nexus, rapport, regard, relation, relevancy, respect, seam, signalling, tap, tie, tie up, truss, tying). (various references)

Arabic		‏وثاقة الصلة بالموضوع, ‏علاقة (bond, connection, connexion, link, linkage, nexus, rapport, relation, relationship, respect, runner, shroud, tie). (various references)

Bulgarian		уместност (advisability, appropriateness, felicity, neatness, pertinence, poignancy, propriety, relevancy), връзка (alliance, association, bond, bunch, cement, channel, communication, concatenation, connection, connexion, contact, copula, cord, coupler, intercommunication, lace, leverage, liaison, ligament, ligature, link, nexus, noose, overlay, point, reference, regard, relation, relationship, relevancy, string, tie, touch), обществено значение (relevancy), практическо значение (relevancy), приложимост (adaptability, feasibility, latitude, practicability, relevancy, viability). (various references)

Chinese		相关性 (relevancy). (various references)

Czech		relevantnost, relevance, závažnost (consequence, gravity, magnitude, relevancy, weight), dùležitost (concernment, consequence, greatness, importance, magnitude, stress). (various references)

Danish		relevans. (various references)

Dutch		relevantie. (various references)

Esperanto		aferkoncerneco. (various references)

Farsi		ارتباط (Correlation, Hookup, Liaison, Relation), ربط (Concern, Contiguity, Correlation, Juncture, Paraphrase, Rapport). (various references)

Finnish		relevanssi, asiaankuuluvuus. (various references)

French		pertinence, rapport (record, reference, relation, report, respect). (various references)

German		Sachlichkeit (dispassion, matter-of-factness, objectivity, practicality, pragmatism), Relevanz (pertinece, relevancy). (various references)

Greek		συνάφεια (adhesion, adhesiveness, affinity, bond, bonding, chaining, coherence, connection, context, contiguity, contingency, continuity, linking, nexus, object, related cases, relevancy, sticking property, the state in which two surfaces are held together by interfacial forces which may consist of valence forces), σχετικότητα (relatedness, relativeness, relativity, relevancy). (various references)

Hebrew		שיכות לע� ין. (various references)

Hungarian		tárgyhoz tartozás (relevancy), fontosság (caliber, calibre, concernment, consequence, consideration, importance, magnitude, mark, ponderosity, relevancy, stress, value). (various references)

Italian		rilevanza, pertinenza (pertinence, pertinency, relevancy). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		適�" (adequacy, fitness, suitability), 適切 (adequate, appropriate, pertinent), 関連性 (associativity, relatedness, relation, relationship), 関連 (connection, relation), 関聯 (connection, relation). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		か�"れ�"せい (associativity, relatedness, relation, relationship), か�"れ�" (connection, relation), てきせつ (adequate, appropriate, pertinent), てきとう (adequacy, fitness, suitability). (various references)

Korean		관� �성 (relevancy). (various references)

Manx		bentynys (tangency). (various references)

Pig Latin		elevanceray

Portuguese		relevância (materialization, relevancy). (various references)

Romanian		relevanţã (relevancy), relaţie (account, bearing, communion, concern, connection, contact, intercourse, relation, relationship, relevancy), legãturã (band, bandage, bearing, bind, binder, binding, bond, brace, bracer, bunch, bundle, communion, concern, conjunction, connection, contact, cord, harmony, headkerchief, hoist, junction, knot, lashing, league, liaison, ligament, link, link up, marriage, nexus, pack, pertinence, rapport, reference, relation, relationship, relevancy, respect, sheaf, tie, touch, truss, unity), importanţã (account, amount, bearing, concern, consequence, consideration, extent, gravity, greatness, importance, interest, magnitude, matter, moment, pith, prominence, relevancy, relief, self-importance, significance, store, value, weight). (various references)

Russian		уместность (appositeness, appropriateness, pertinence, propriety, relevancy). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		relevantnost (relevancy), značajnost (notability, pertinence, relevancy, weightiness). (various references)

Spanish		relevancia, relación (association, connection, connexion, connotation, link, link up, list, record, reference, relation, relationship, relevancy, telegraph relation, telex relation, touch, understanding), pertinencia (applicability, dispassion, pertinence, pertinency, relevancy), eficacia (effectiveness, efficacy, efficiency), conexión (alcove, arming, assembly, attach flag, bond, bonding, channel, closing, connected, connection, connexion, diplomacy, fitting, hookup, joining, joint, jointing, junction, liaison, link, link up, linkage, MAC connection, plug, putting through, related cases, relation, relationship, relevancy, strapping, tag, touch, turn-on), aplicabilidad (applicability, relevancy). (various references)

Swedish		relevans (pertinence, relevancy). (various references)

Turkish		uygunluk (acceptability, accordance, adaptation, adequacy, advisability, appositeness, aptitude, coherence, coherency, comeliness, compatibility, concord, conformation, conformity, congeniality, congruence, congruity, convenience, correctitude, correctness, correspondence, decency, expedience, expediency, felicity, fidelity, fitness, handiness, happiness, opportuneness, pertinence, propitiousness, propriety, relevancy, seemliness, sufficiency, suitability), ilişki (affair, affaire, affinity, bond, commerce, connection, connexion, contact, copulation, corelate, correlate, correlation, daughter, dealing, dealings, gallantry, intercourse, interrelation, involvement, it, liaison, noose, rapport, reference, regard, relation, relationship, relevancy, sexual intercourse, truck), ilgi (affinity, attachment, attention, bearing, care, concern, connection, connexion, curiosity, interest, involvement, liking, pertinence, reference, regard, relation, relationship, relativeness, relevancy, respect, solicitude, sympathies, sympathy, thought), alâka (attachment, bearing, concern, connection, interest, relation, relationship, relevancy, respect). (various references)

Ukranian		релевантність (relevancy), доречність (appropriateness, aptitude, aptness, fitness, happiness, pertinence, pertinency, propriety, relevancy, rightness). (various references)

Vietnamese		sự xác đáng (relevancy), sự thích hợp (adequacy, adequateness, appropriateness, congruity, congurence, fitness, pertinence, pertinency, propriety, relevancy, suitability, suitableness), sự thích đáng (adequacy, adequateness, appropriateness, aptness, pertinence, pertinency, propriety, relevancy). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "relevance": relevances. (additional references)
	Words ending with "relevance": irrelevance. (additional references)
	Words containing "relevance": irrelevances. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Relevance" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: reallowance, regevance, relavance, relevanace, relevances, relevence, revelance, rlevance. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "relevance" (pronounced re"luvuns)
8	r e" l u v u n s	irrelevance.
4	-v u n s	connivance, contrivance, grievance, observance, province.
3	-u n s	abeyance, abhorrence, absence, abstinence, abundance, acceptance, accordance, acquaintance, acquiescence, adherence, admirations, admittance, adolescence, affluence, allegiance, alliance, allowance, ambiance, ambience, ambivalence, ambulance, annoyance, appearance, appliance, arrogance, ascendance, assistance, assurance, attendance, audience, avoidance, balance, belligerence, beneficence, benevolence, bioscience, brilliance, cadence, capacitance, chrominance, circumference, clairvoyance, Clarence, clearance, coexistence, cognizance, coherence, coincidence, coinsurance, comeuppance, competence, compliance, concurrence, condolence, conference, confidence, confluence, conformance, congruence, conscience, consequence, consistence, continuance, convalescence, convenience, convergence, conveyance, correspondence, countenance, counterbalance, counterintelligence, credence, dalliance, decadence, Defeasance, deference, defiance, deliverance, dependence, deterrence, deviance, difference, diligence, disallowance, disappearance, discontinuance, disobedience, dissidence, dissonance, distance, disturbance, divergence, dominance, ebullience, elegance, eloquence, emergence, eminence, endurance, entrance, equivalence, essence, evanescence, evidence, excellence, existence, expedience, experience, extravagance, exuberance, flamboyance, Florence, forbearance, fragrance, furtherance, governance, guidance, hindrance, ignorance, imbalance, immanence, imminence, impatience, impedance, importance, impotence, imprudence, inadvertence, incidence, incoherence, incompetence, incontinence, inconvenience, independence, indifference, inductance, indulgence, inexperience, inference, influence, inheritance, innocence, insignificance, insistence, insolence, instance, insurance, intelligence, interdependence, interference, intolerance, intransigence, invariance, irreverence, issuance, jurisprudence, licence, license, luminance, luminescence, maintenance, malfeasance, negligence, neuroscience, noncompliance, noninterference, nonviolence, nuisance, obedience, obsolescence, occurrence, omnipotence, omnipresence, opulence, ordinance, Ordnance, overabundance, overconfidence, overdependence, overreliance, parlance, patience, penance, performance, permanence, persecutions, perseverance, persistence, pestilence, petulance, phosphorescence, pittance, precedence, predominance, preeminence, preference, preponderance, prescience, presence, prevalence, prominence, protuberance, provenance, Providence, prudence, pseudoscience, quintessence, radiance, reappearance, reassurance, recalcitrance, recognizance, reconnaissance, recurrence, reemergence, reference, reinspections, reinsurance, reliance, reluctance, remembrance, reminiscence, remittance, repentance, resemblance, residence, resilience, resistance, resonance, resurgence, reticence, reverence, riddance, science, semblance, senescence, sentence, sequence, severance, significance, silence, submergence, subservience, subsidence, subsistence, substance, surveillance, sustenance, teleconference, temperance, tolerance, transcendence, transference, transience, turbulence, unbalance, utterance, Valence, variance, vehemence, vengeance, videoconference, vigilance, violence, virulence.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-e-l-n-r-v"
	-1 letter: venereal, vernacle.
	-2 letters: cleaner, cleaver, enclave, reclean, valence.
	-3 letters: careen, carvel, carven, cavern, cereal, claver, cleave, clever, craven, crenel, eleven, enlace, evener, lancer, laveer, leaner, leaven, leaver, recane, relace, releve, reveal, vealer, veneer, vernal.
	-4 letters: anele, calve, caner, carle, carve, caver, clave, clean, clear, crane, crave, creel, elver, lacer, lance, laree, laver, learn, leave.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-e-l-n-r-v"
	+1 letter: prevalence, relevances.
	+2 letters: deliverance, irrelevance, overcleaned, prevalences, relevancies.
	+3 letters: cantilevered, deliverances, irrelevances, overreliance.
	+4 letters: irrelevancies, overreliances, unrecoverable, unserviceable.
	+5 letters: antireflective, overcentralize, verticalnesses.
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

52 65 6C 65 76 61 6E 63 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-. . .-.. . ...- .- -. -.-. .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010010 01100101 01101100 01100101 01110110 01100001 01101110 01100011 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#101 &#108 &#101 &#118 &#97 &#110 &#99 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0065 006C 0065 0076 0061 006E 0063 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

Expression	Frequency per Day
relevance	19
asp code graphic relevance result search	6
joke relevance	4
innovation relevance	3
rank relevance	3
asp rank relevance	3
asp chart relevance	3
asp calculation code relevance result search	3
asp code graphic rank relevance	2
drug human mouse relevance testing	2
curriculum relevance	2
its multimedia relevance security	2
fallacy relevance	2
english language relevance	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Relevance

Definition: Relevance

Relevance

Noun

Specialty Definitions: Relevance

Synonym: Relevance

Crosswords: Relevance

Commercial Usage: Relevance

Books

Music

Non-Fiction Usage: Relevance

Usage Frequency: Relevance

Expression: Relevance

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Relevance

relevance

asp code graphic relevance result search

joke relevance

innovation relevance

rank relevance

asp rank relevance

asp chart relevance

asp calculation code relevance result search

asp code graphic rank relevance

drug human mouse relevance testing

curriculum relevance

its multimedia relevance security

fallacy relevance

english language relevance

Modern Translations: Relevance

Albanian

Arabic

Bulgarian

Chinese

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Danish

Dutch

Esperanto

Farsi

Finnish

French

German

Greek

Hebrew

Hungarian

Italian

Japanese Kanji

Japanese Katakana

Korean

Manx

Pig Latin

Portuguese

Romanian

Russian

Serbo-Croatian

Spanish

Swedish

Turkish

Ukranian

Vietnamese

Derivations & Misspellings: Relevance

Derivations

Misspellings

Rhyming with "Relevance"

Anagrams: Relevance

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Alternative Orthography: Relevance

52 65 6C 65 76 61 6E 63 65

.-. . .-.. . ...- .- -. -.-. .

01010010 01100101 01101100 01100101 01110110 01100001 01101110 01100011 01100101

&#82 &#101 &#108 &#101 &#118 &#97 &#110 &#99 &#101

0052 0065 006C 0065 0076 0061 006E 0063 0065

527178718867806971

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