direct relevance
collocation in Englishmeaningsofdirectandrelevance
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direct
adjective
uk/daɪˈrekt/us/daɪˈrekt/
going in a straight line towards somewhere or someone without stopping or ...
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relevance
noun[U]
uk/ˈrel.ə.vəns/us/ˈrel.ə.vəns/
the degree to which something is related or useful to what is happening or being ...
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(Definition ofdirectandrelevancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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This feature of nasal harmony is not addressed in this paper, because it does not appear to be ofdirectrelevanceto the main issues.
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One that hasdirectrelevanceto practical robotics is the scheduling of autonomous guided vehicles in flexible manufacturing systems.
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All of this is ingenious and suggestive, but of littledirectrelevanceto the seventeenth century.
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Only measures ofdirectrelevanceto the association between nonword repetition and receptive vocabulary are described here.
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Both of these exceptions are temporally constrained, and are thus not ofdirectrelevanceto contemporary sea ice conditions and uses.
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In such systems, the strategy of approach taken here is likely to be of littledirectrelevance.
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As soil type has moredirectrelevanceto plants than bedrock, we included the first at the expense of the latter.
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Since 81 per cent of the respondents raised pigs, the questions were ofdirectrelevancefor water quality maintenance and disease control on the island.
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Much of this work is ofdirectrelevanceto second language acquisition researchers.
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This is obviously a question where ecological stoichiometry hasdirectrelevanceand there is a large oceanographic literature related to these issues.
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Ofdirectrelevancehere is the child's selection of a letter to spell a phoneme when isolated from a word.
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This link between the local and the global hasdirectrelevancefor power relations at the local level.
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Should be listed in order ofdirectrelevanceto the term.
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However, there are a couple of omissions in the technical discussion in chapters 3-5 which concern general areas ofdirectrelevanceto the book.
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One very important influence ofdirectrelevanceto the present study is the external demand imposed by learning to read.
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Many of these programmes lackdirectrelevanceto everyday life and fail to address issues of generalization and maintenance of gains.
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However, littledirectrelevancebetween them is apparent in the official diktat of the time.
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If substantiated, such instances would havedirectrelevanceto immune system recognition, immunity and parasite immune evasion mechanisms.
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The absence of gas within the uterus, however, means that this knowledge is of littledirectrelevancefor most obstetric scanning.
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