Significance

Significance can refer to: with purpose and importance

  • Meaning
    • In semiotics, the meaning assigned to a sign
  • Significance (magazine), 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
  • Statistical significance, the extent to which a result is unlikely to be due to chance alone

Other articles related to "significance":

Kaupina - Religious Significance
... bagyavantah “ ” Sri Shankaracharya It has religious significance attached to asceticism for the Hindus ... Sri Shankaracharya composed a verse called Kaupina Panchakam to assert the significance of asceticism ...
North Uxbridge School - National Register Listing
... Uxbridge Historic Significance Architecture/Engineering Architect, builder, or engineer Cutting,Carlton Cutting Architectural Style Italianate, Colonial Revival Area of ...
East Parish Burying Ground - National Register Listing
... Newton Historic Significance Person, Architecture/Engineering, Event Historic Person Multiple Significant Year 1850, 1660 Area of Significance Art, Exploration/Settlement ...
Grantsmanship - Significance
... The significance of projects seeking funding can be divided into four categories theoretical, methodological, applied, or social ... A project with an applied significance provides answers to real-world problems ...
Fizeau Interferometer - Fizeau's Ether-drag Experiment - Significance
... According to the theories prevailing at the time, light traveling through a moving medium would be dragged along by the medium, so the measured speed of the light would be a simple sum of its speed through the medium plus the speed of the medium ... Fizeau indeed detected a dragging effect, but the magnitude of the effect that he observed was far lower than expected ...

Famous quotes containing the word significance:

    “The hypothesis I wish to advance is that ... the language of morality is in ... grave disorder.... What we possess, if this is true, are the fragments of a conceptual scheme, parts of which now lack those contexts from which their significance derived. We possess indeed simulacra of morality, we continue to use many of the key expressions. But we have—very largely if not entirely—lost our comprehension, both theoretical and practical, of morality.”
    —Alasdair Chalmers MacIntyre (b. 1929)

    “History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.”
    —Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)