Collocations withsignificance
These are words often used in combination withsignificance.
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adaptive significance
However, we fully agree that claims of adaptive significance are best justified by empirical data rather than plausibility arguments.
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added significance
The fact that hedges were usually made of hawthorn, a form of organic barbed wire, takes on an added significance here.
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architectural significance
Finally, the buildings are reminders that architectural significance is more than skin deep.
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clinical significance
In order to evaluate clinical significance, recovery was assessed by analysing the number of cases of depression in both groups at onset and subsequently.
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considerable significance
Inevitably this is an urgent task and one of considerable significance.
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cultural significance
Most of the latter would have little cultural significance.
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deep significance
Telling is cast as testimony, as a moral responsibility, and as an act of deep significance in which the terms of equality, responsibility, and citizenship are tested and assured.
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ecological significance
Because its definitive host species (a fish) is unknown, the ecological significance of its phenology is uncertain.
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emotional significance
Here the stimulus is imbued with emotional significance.
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enormous significance
His arguments fail to address the enormous significance of the risings' local religious and political cultures.
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equal significance
It is argued here that ' top-down' and ' bottom-up' dynamics were of equal significance in the development of the dispute.
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ethical significance
Finally, a question might be raised about the ethical significance of our results on the distribution of wealth.
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evolutionary significance
The evolutionary significance of these findings is still obscure.
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functional significance
What is actually meant here by functional significance is not clear.
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fundamental significance
The relationship of drapery to the underlying structure is clearly of fundamental significance and leads to a clearer distinction between tailored and draped architecture.
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global significance
The global significance of this process should not be underestimated.
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great significance
There is no doubt that this volume is of great significance for those interested in the syntax of free word order.
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greatest significance
Its greatest significance is as a marker of the changing relationship between organizations and their office accommodation.
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historic significance
It has a historic significance, dating from legislation before the second world war.
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historical significance
This context helps explain the historical significance of the early twentieth-century debate about the origins of the scientific revolution.
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immense significance
The second justification offered is of immense significance to students of cross-cultural study.
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lack of significance
We guess that this lack of significance is due to measurement error.
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lasting significance
I am inclined to think that on the whole the amount of publicity they have received exceeds their importance of their lasting significance.
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marginal significance
Oddly, however, education has a negative effect in the 1980s, albeit at marginal significance levels.
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minor significance
Additionally, 13-2% of single unmarried mothers had an independent apartment; other forms of housing were of minor significance.
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moral significance
The moral significance of the intending-foreseeing distinction requires more than the mere functional role of intention and foresight.
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mystical significance
Is there some mystical significance or sanctity attaching to this number—or is this all we can conveniently fly at a given time?
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overall significance
Moreover, our model provides an overall significance level for the association between the disease trait and a group or all of the haplotypes.
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particular significance
This analysis has particular significance because postmilking teat disinfection is a commonly used method.
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political significance
Labor officials and others consistently downplayed the wider political significance of the employer-mandate idea.
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potential significance
While these findings may not be particularly surprising, their true merit resides in their validity and potential significance.
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practical significance
The practical significance of this limitation is that it is necessary to fixate most words so that they can be identified.
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profound significance
One has only to think of the contemporaneous rise of instrumental notation to realise the profound significance of the changes.
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prognostic significance
In addition, there are still controversies regarding the prognostic significance of detection of micrometastasis in breast cancer.
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relative significance
People can debate the merits of different notions of dignity, and they can argue the relative significance of opposing concepts in ethical disputes.
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religious significance
These cases are of such religious significance that they ought to be distinguishable.
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ritual significance
The deposition of household trash within the pit is likely to be interpreted as lacking in ritual significance.
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significance testing
These virtues do not, however, extend to most of the applications for which psychology relies on statistical significance testing.
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special significance
Moreover, in several cases they were associated with other objects of special significance, indicating that these vessels were highly appreciated by their owners.
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spiritual significance
Historical events contained a spiritual significance-all pointing toward the spread of liberty.
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statistical significance
While having a job was negatively associated with protest potential, the coefficient failed to meet conventional levels of statistical significance in all models.
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strategic significance
The precast concrete ribbons were the only items specially designed for the project and had a strategic significance in achieving coherence.
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symbolic significance
Of course, even when terms are used with technical precision, they can still resonate with symbolic significance.
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theological significance
The theological significance of these non-canonical sources cannot be underestimated.
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theoretical significance
The algorithm and its theoretical significance are discussed in the paper.
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tremendous significance
Continued attention to broad trends of increasing precision of knowledge and technique, the tremendous significance of which is evident, is clearly needed.
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utmost significance
We believe this problem is of the utmost significance to the development of science.
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