relative significance
collocation in Englishmeaningsofrelativeandsignificance
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relative
adjective
uk/ˈrel.ə.tɪv/us/ˈrel.ə.t̬ɪv/
being judged or measured in comparison with ...
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significance
noun[U]
uk/sɪɡˈnɪf.ɪ.kəns/us/sɪɡˈnɪf.ə.kəns/
importance:
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People can debate the merits of different notions of dignity, and they can argue therelativesignificanceof opposing concepts in ethical disputes.
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In attempting to demonstrate therelativesignificanceto the fly of the different climatic factors, the statistical method of calculating correlation coefficients will be helpful.
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Obviously, therelativesignificanceof the causes of human conduct will be determined by complex interactions of variables.
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Indeed, how was their "relativesignificance" to be determined?
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It may also involve uncertainty about which factors hold, and uncertainty about therelativesignificanceof the influences.
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This gives a way of representing and reasoning with therelativesignificanceof direct influences on a node.
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We postulate that such an approach throws light on therelativesignificanceof ecological and economic value and the links between the two.
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In that sense, sharecropping was a partial response to a changing structure and itsrelativesignificancevaried accordingly.
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How were these facts and phenomena to be distinguished, named, and organized in terms of theirrelativesignificance?
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It should also be possible to test therelativesignificanceof rational expectations among the electorate compared with choices based on retrospective evaluation.
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For some groups, either in the trajectory analyses or in comparison of males and females, therelativesignificanceof prior and contemporary experiences varies as well.
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Factor weights were calculated using the one-level analysis, and therelativesignificanceof each group was determined using the step-up 0 stepdown analysis.
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When multiple goals are considered simultaneously, the balance factor for each individual goal will be assigned such thatrelativesignificancefor each individual goal will be equal.
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The years before the war had witnessed acrimonious debates among practitioners of the new academic discipline of criminology over therelativesignificanceof environment and heredity in fostering criminal behaviour.
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It is true that therelativesignificanceof these types of emissions increases as the properties of road vehicle engines improve in environmental terms.
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