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
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)
“The hysterical find too much significance in things. The depressed find too little.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.”
—Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)