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  2. Significance - Wikipedia

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    Significance is a synonym for importance. It can also refer to: Significance, a magazine published by the Royal Statistical Society and the American Statistical Association; Significance (policy debate), a stock issue in policy debate; Significant figures or significant digits, the precision of a numerical value

  3. Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. A modern english thesaurus. A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms ...

  4. Thesaurus (information retrieval) - Wikipedia

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    A thesaurus is composed by at least three elements: 1-a list of words (or terms), 2-the relationship amongst the words (or terms), indicated by their hierarchical relative position (e.g. parent/broader term; child/narrower term, synonym, etc.), 3-a set of rules on how to use the thesaurus.

  5. Synonym - Wikipedia

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    Synonym list in cuneiform on a clay tablet, Neo-Assyrian period [1] A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means precisely or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. [2] For example, in the English language, the words begin, start, commence, and initiate are all synonyms of one another: they are ...

  6. Cognitive synonymy - Wikipedia

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    Cognitive synonymy is a type of synonymy in which synonyms are so similar in meaning that they cannot be differentiated either denotatively or connotatively, that is, not even by mental associations, connotations, emotive responses, and poetic value.

  7. Physiological relevance - Wikipedia

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    Physiological relevance is a scientific concept that refers to the applicability or significance of a particular experimental finding or biological observation in the context of normal bodily functions. This concept is often used in biomedical research, where scientists strive to design experiments that not only yield statistically significant ...

  8. Prosecution rests case against school shooter's mother after ...

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    The prosecution has tried to portray Crumbley, 45, as a neglectful mother who was aware of her son's mental health issues and failed to intervene, while giving him access to firearms and caring ...

  9. Black swan theory - Wikipedia

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    The importance of the metaphor lies in its analogy to the fragility of any system of thought. [clarification needed] A set of conclusions is potentially undone once any of its fundamental postulates is disproved. In this case, the observation of a single black swan would be the undoing of the logic of any system of thought, as well as any ...