significancen.

Brit.

/sᵻɡˈnɪfᵻk(ə)ns/, U.S.

/sᵻɡˈnɪfᵻk(ə)ns/

Forms: Middle English signeficaunce, Middle English significaunce, Middle English significauns, Middle English– significance; also Scottish pre-1700 significaunce.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin significantia.

Etymology: < classical Latin significantia meaningfulness, act of conveying information, indication < significant- , significāns , present participle of significāre signify v. + -ia -ia suffix¹; compare -ance suffix. In later uses, especially in sense 3 and the compounds in statistical terminology, after significant adj. Compare Old French significhance , significance , seingnificance , French †significance (end of the 12th cent.–13th cent., subsequently 1611 in an apparently isolated attestation in Cotgrave), Old Occitan (Gascon) significanssa proof, Catalan significança (12th cent.), Spanish (now rare) significancia (c1200 as †significança ; also as †significanza ), Portuguese significância (13th cent. as †sinificança ), Italian significanza (13th cent.; also as †significança , †significansa ); the more usual words in all these languages are the parallels cited at signification n. Compare also Anglo-Norman signeficiance (c1200 in an apparently isolated attestation; probably transmission error). Compare earlier signifiance n., signifying n., signification n., and later significancy n.

a. The meaning of a word, gesture, event, etc.; the purport of a symbol. Also as a count noun: a particular meaning, a sense. Frequently with of.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > [noun]

signifiancec1275

wita1340

understanding1340

significancea1400

interpretationc1400

sentence1402

signification?a1425

comprehensec1470

knowledging1532

meaning1600

conceit1607

significancy1618

signality1646

significativeness1652

valor1676

amount1678

significature1822

a1400 in G. R. Keiser Middle Eng. ‘Bk. Stones’ (1984) 5 (MED) We shullen rehercen..þe vertue of othere stones..and the significances: what they signifieden atte aarons necke, and what they signifieden as to þe grete kyngdom.

a1450 (?1420) J. Lydgate Temple of Glas (Tanner) (1891) l. 1390 (MED) Til I haue leiser..Forto expoune my forseid visioun And tel in plein þe significaunce.

a1500 (?c1450) Merlin ii. 39 (MED) Often axed Vortiger of Merlyn the significance of the two dragons.

1593 T. Bilson Perpetual Govt. Christes Church vii. 80 I haue not racked nor wrested the places from their naturall sense, nor the words from their proper significance.

1630 H. Lord Relig. Persees iii. 12 in Display Two Forraigne Sects Shee..repaired to one that was a Southsayer, to bee informed touching the significance of this vision.

1645 J. Milton Tetrachordon 64 They take not heer the word fornication in the common significance, for an open exercise in the stews.

1672 R. Baxter Certainty of Christianity iii. 15 The significance of such words by humane usage from those daies till now, which Lexicons, Books, and successive practice fully prove.

1746 Literary Jrnl. 4 19 Such Overtures, however promising and inviting in Appearance, can bear no such Significance, or Interpretation.

1782 Town & Country Mag. Jan. 25/2 The following lines are produced..as specimens of resemblance between the sound and significance of certain words.

a1834 S. T. Coleridge Lit. Remains (1836) II. 350 What the several significances of each must or may be according to the philosophic conception.

1863 D. Wilson Prehistoric Ann. Scotl. (ed. 2) II. iv. ii. 225 The special significance of the symbols.

1871 J. Ruskin Fors Clavigera I. iii. 11 One great species of the British squire, under all the three significances of the name.

1921 J. Galsworthy To Let 288 The October paragraphs describing the wedding of Fleur Forsyte to Michael Mont hardly conveyed the symbolic significance of this event.

1960 D. Lodge Picturegoers 191 ‘It's enough for us to be able to mourn him.’ The significance of Hilda's black clothes struck Clare suddenly with a little spasm of horror.

2006 D. G. Schwartz Roll Bones vii. 151 Dream books, which contained instructions on how to interpret the numerological significance of dreams, became enormously popular.

b. The quality of expressing or implying something; suggestiveness.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > high significance, expressiveness > [noun]

significancy1577

significance1585

expressiveness1655

meaningness1753

pregnancy1839

ideality1845

meaningfulness1904

expressivity1944

1585 T. Bilson True Difference Christian Subiection iv. 631 Eche Countrie..kept these two Hebrewe woordes Amen and Alleluia vntouched & vntranslated for a certaine significance in the words them-selues.

1649 J. Milton Εικονοκλαστης viii. 73 Empty sentences, that have the sound of gravity, but the significance of nothing pertinent.

1690 J. Dryden Don Sebastian Pref. sig. a Here and there some old words are sprinkled, which for their significance and sound, deserv'd not to be antiquated.

1792 T. Holcroft Anna St. Ives V. lxxxvii. 128 There was a marked significance in his manner.

1814 W. Scott Waverley II. xiv. 223 She gave Waverley a parting smile and nod of significance .

1863 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola III. x. 96 To one who is anxiously in search of a certain object the faintest suggestions have a peculiar significance.

1867 G. MacDonald Ann. Quiet Neighbourhood III. vi. 129 She had looked at me strangely—that is, with some significance in her face.

1921 K. B. Hamill Flower of Monterey x. 85 Marie, curious at last, chiefly because of the subtle significance of his tone, spoke impatiently.

1968 Punch 25 Dec. 932/3 Mr. Stegner chooses instead to invest detail with significance, and he overwrites in truly Nabokovian manner.

1996 CMJ New Music Monthly July 26/1 Beck stresses that word, novelty, with significance.

2. The quality of being worthy of attention; importance, consequence.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [noun]

mund?c1250

steemc1330

greatnessc1410

substancec1425

importance1485

weight1521

moment1522

weightiness1530

importancy1531

importunance1546

import1548

reckoning1582

sequel1588

ponderosity1589

valure1594

consequence1597

significance1597

circumstance1599

consequent1599

eminency1622

importmenta1625

concernment1626

consideration1634

telling1636

signification1645

considerableness1647

concerningness1657

nearness1679

significancy1679

respectability1769

interest1809

noteworthiness1852

portee1893

valency1897

1597 Bp. J. King Lect. Ionas xix. 251 I omit an hundreth places of no lesse significance.

1694 C. Cotton tr. L. Pontis Mem. ii. v. 228 He..had a room well furnished, making his Landlord believe, he was a person of great Significance.

1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World i. 16 Of such Significance, that for many Years it was counted a great Exploit to pass this Streight.

1733 P. Shaw tr. F. Bacon in Philos. Wks. I. 583 All their Endeavours, either of Persuasion or Force, are of little significance.

1778 D. Loch Ess. Trade Scotl. I. iii. 159 I hope none will entertain the opinion, because he is single, his efforts can be of little significance.

1841–8 F. Myers Catholic Thoughts II. iii. §4. 12 Many of the statutes and ordinances..derive their chief significance from their reference to Egyptian rites and institutions.

1862 H. Spencer First Princ. i. i. §4. 17 In the existence of a religious sentiment..we have a second evidence of great significance.

1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) II. 140 The omission is not of any real significance.

1920 D. H. Lawrence Women in Love xvii. 233 He had lost his significance, he scarcely mattered in her world.

1949 ‘G. Orwell’ Nineteen Eighty-four i. vii. 79 The instant he had flattened it [sc. a fragment of paper] out he saw its significance.

1991 T. Dupuy How to defeat Saddam Hussein ii. 28 The significance of oil and oil economics is undeniable in the current crisis.

3. Statistics. The extent to which an observed numerical result is statistically significant. More fully statistical significance. See also Compounds.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > probability or statistics > [noun] > significance

statistical significance1861

significance1888

level of confidence or significance1925

1888 J. Venn Logic of Chance (ed. 3) xix. 486 As before, common sense would feel little doubt that such a difference was significant, but it could give no numerical estimate of the significance.

1947 Biometrika 34 139 Such a difference in levels of significance in the solution of an everyday problem is obviously puzzling.

1970 Nature 25 July 384/2 Calculations of significance are based on the significance of the difference between paired observations using Student's t test.

2010 A. Rubin Statistics Evidence-based Pract. Eval. (ed. 2) 131/1 If our level of significance is 0.05 and our p-value is 0.04, then our finding is statistically significant.

Compounds

(In sense 3.)

significance level n. Statistics the probability at which sets of data, esp. experimental results, are considered statistically significant.

ΚΠ

1934 Suppl. Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. 1 191 Significance levels.

1960 Amer. Sociol. Rev. 25 202/2 In the test of this hypothesis a Chi-square of 34·34 was obtained, considerably lower than Chi-square at the ten per cent significance level for 34 degrees of freedom.

2010 H. Motulsky Intuitive Biostatistics (ed. 2) xv. 126 If you choose a stricter significance level, it is..harder to find real effects.

significance test n. Statistics a method used to calculate the significance of an observed numerical result.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > probability or statistics > [noun] > significance > test for

significance test1902

Student's t-distribution1925

t test1932

Student's t-test1933

1902 Biometrika 1 168 (table) Significance test.

1977 P. Johnson Enemies of Society xi. 157 ‘Results’ used to confirm hypotheses are often no better than random data because significance tests would validate almost anything.

2009 S. Okasha in H. Beebee et al. Oxf. Handbk. Causation xxxv. 712 Once the result of the experiment is in, we can use a significance test to determine the probability of obtaining that result, if the null hypothesis were true.

significance testing n. Statistics calculation of the significance of an observed numerical result.

ΚΠ

1947 Biometrika 34 36 This coefficient has advantages over Spearman's ρ.., thus facilitating significance testing.

2008 A. Aschengrau & G. R. Seage Essent. Epidemiol. Public Health xii. 315 The chief limitation of significance testing is the use of a purely arbitrary cutoff for deciding whether to reject the null hypothesis.

significance threshold n. Statistics = significance level n.; (also) the minimum significant difference between sets of data at a given significance level.

ΚΠ

1956 Biol. Effects of Radiation (Proc. Internat. Conf. Peaceful Uses Atomic Energy) XI. 246/1 Applying statistical analysis to the results shown on Table I, with the help of the Student test, using a significance threshold of 5%, it is noted that, with the dose of 1 r, the increase in the irradiated sample with respect to the control is significant.

1983 Ultrasonics 21 168/2 The good correlations found..can be seen from the values of the correlation coefficients which are always much higher than the significance threshold for 99.9% probability.

2009 A. Piquero & D. Weisburd Handbk. Qualitative Criminol. xvi. 317 Clearly, it is much easier to reject the null hypothesis with a 0.10 significance threshold than with a 0.01 significance threshold.

significance value n. Statistics = significance threshold n.

ΚΠ

1937 G. U. Yule & M. C. Kendall Introd. Theory Statistics (ed. 11) 444 From Appendix Table 6A we see that for these degrees of freedom the 5 per cent. significance value of 2 is 0.6576.

1951 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 17 Feb. 325 The Χ² test gives the value of 10.46, which value is much greater than 3.84, the critical significance value for one degree o freedom.

1983 Powder Technol. 36 116/2 Those with significance values less than 0.64 are poor substitutes.

2006 D. S. Paulson Handbk. Regression & Modeling i. 8 If the test value calculated is less than the significance value, reject H_o.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	significance
释义	significancen. Brit. /sᵻɡˈnɪfᵻk(ə)ns/, U.S. /sᵻɡˈnɪfᵻk(ə)ns/ Forms: Middle English signeficaunce, Middle English significaunce, Middle English significauns, Middle English– significance; also Scottish pre-1700 significaunce. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin significantia. Etymology: < classical Latin significantia meaningfulness, act of conveying information, indication < significant- , significāns , present participle of significāre signify v. + -ia -ia suffix¹; compare -ance suffix. In later uses, especially in sense 3 and the compounds in statistical terminology, after significant adj. Compare Old French significhance , significance , seingnificance , French †significance (end of the 12th cent.–13th cent., subsequently 1611 in an apparently isolated attestation in Cotgrave), Old Occitan (Gascon) significanssa proof, Catalan significança (12th cent.), Spanish (now rare) significancia (c1200 as †significança ; also as †significanza ), Portuguese significância (13th cent. as †sinificança ), Italian significanza (13th cent.; also as †significança , †significansa ); the more usual words in all these languages are the parallels cited at signification n. Compare also Anglo-Norman signeficiance (c1200 in an apparently isolated attestation; probably transmission error). Compare earlier signifiance n., signifying n., signification n., and later significancy n. 1. a. The meaning of a word, gesture, event, etc.; the purport of a symbol. Also as a count noun: a particular meaning, a sense. Frequently with of. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > [noun] signifiancec1275 wita1340 understanding1340 significancea1400 interpretationc1400 sentence1402 signification?a1425 comprehensec1470 knowledging1532 meaning1600 conceit1607 significancy1618 signality1646 significativeness1652 valor1676 amount1678 significature1822 a1400 in G. R. Keiser Middle Eng. ‘Bk. Stones’ (1984) 5 (MED) We shullen rehercen..þe vertue of othere stones..and the significances: what they signifieden atte aarons necke, and what they signifieden as to þe grete kyngdom. a1450 (?1420) J. Lydgate Temple of Glas (Tanner) (1891) l. 1390 (MED) Til I haue leiser..Forto expoune my forseid visioun And tel in plein þe significaunce. a1500 (?c1450) Merlin ii. 39 (MED) Often axed Vortiger of Merlyn the significance of the two dragons. 1593 T. Bilson Perpetual Govt. Christes Church vii. 80 I haue not racked nor wrested the places from their naturall sense, nor the words from their proper significance. 1630 H. Lord Relig. Persees iii. 12 in Display Two Forraigne Sects Shee..repaired to one that was a Southsayer, to bee informed touching the significance of this vision. 1645 J. Milton Tetrachordon 64 They take not heer the word fornication in the common significance, for an open exercise in the stews. 1672 R. Baxter Certainty of Christianity iii. 15 The significance of such words by humane usage from those daies till now, which Lexicons, Books, and successive practice fully prove. 1746 Literary Jrnl. 4 19 Such Overtures, however promising and inviting in Appearance, can bear no such Significance, or Interpretation. 1782 Town & Country Mag. Jan. 25/2 The following lines are produced..as specimens of resemblance between the sound and significance of certain words. a1834 S. T. Coleridge Lit. Remains (1836) II. 350 What the several significances of each must or may be according to the philosophic conception. 1863 D. Wilson Prehistoric Ann. Scotl. (ed. 2) II. iv. ii. 225 The special significance of the symbols. 1871 J. Ruskin Fors Clavigera I. iii. 11 One great species of the British squire, under all the three significances of the name. 1921 J. Galsworthy To Let 288 The October paragraphs describing the wedding of Fleur Forsyte to Michael Mont hardly conveyed the symbolic significance of this event. 1960 D. Lodge Picturegoers 191 ‘It's enough for us to be able to mourn him.’ The significance of Hilda's black clothes struck Clare suddenly with a little spasm of horror. 2006 D. G. Schwartz Roll Bones vii. 151 Dream books, which contained instructions on how to interpret the numerological significance of dreams, became enormously popular. b. The quality of expressing or implying something; suggestiveness. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > high significance, expressiveness > [noun] significancy1577 significance1585 expressiveness1655 meaningness1753 pregnancy1839 ideality1845 meaningfulness1904 expressivity1944 1585 T. Bilson True Difference Christian Subiection iv. 631 Eche Countrie..kept these two Hebrewe woordes Amen and Alleluia vntouched & vntranslated for a certaine significance in the words them-selues. 1649 J. Milton Εικονοκλαστης viii. 73 Empty sentences, that have the sound of gravity, but the significance of nothing pertinent. 1690 J. Dryden Don Sebastian Pref. sig. a Here and there some old words are sprinkled, which for their significance and sound, deserv'd not to be antiquated. 1792 T. Holcroft Anna St. Ives V. lxxxvii. 128 There was a marked significance in his manner. 1814 W. Scott Waverley II. xiv. 223 She gave Waverley a parting smile and nod of significance . View more context for this quotation 1863 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola III. x. 96 To one who is anxiously in search of a certain object the faintest suggestions have a peculiar significance. 1867 G. MacDonald Ann. Quiet Neighbourhood III. vi. 129 She had looked at me strangely—that is, with some significance in her face. 1921 K. B. Hamill Flower of Monterey x. 85 Marie, curious at last, chiefly because of the subtle significance of his tone, spoke impatiently. 1968 Punch 25 Dec. 932/3 Mr. Stegner chooses instead to invest detail with significance, and he overwrites in truly Nabokovian manner. 1996 CMJ New Music Monthly July 26/1 Beck stresses that word, novelty, with significance. 2. The quality of being worthy of attention; importance, consequence. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [noun] mund?c1250 steemc1330 greatnessc1410 substancec1425 importance1485 weight1521 moment1522 weightiness1530 importancy1531 importunance1546 import1548 reckoning1582 sequel1588 ponderosity1589 valure1594 consequence1597 significance1597 circumstance1599 consequent1599 eminency1622 importmenta1625 concernment1626 consideration1634 telling1636 signification1645 considerableness1647 concerningness1657 nearness1679 significancy1679 respectability1769 interest1809 noteworthiness1852 portee1893 valency1897 1597 Bp. J. King Lect. Ionas xix. 251 I omit an hundreth places of no lesse significance. 1694 C. Cotton tr. L. Pontis Mem. ii. v. 228 He..had a room well furnished, making his Landlord believe, he was a person of great Significance. 1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World i. 16 Of such Significance, that for many Years it was counted a great Exploit to pass this Streight. 1733 P. Shaw tr. F. Bacon in Philos. Wks. I. 583 All their Endeavours, either of Persuasion or Force, are of little significance. 1778 D. Loch Ess. Trade Scotl. I. iii. 159 I hope none will entertain the opinion, because he is single, his efforts can be of little significance. 1841–8 F. Myers Catholic Thoughts II. iii. §4. 12 Many of the statutes and ordinances..derive their chief significance from their reference to Egyptian rites and institutions. 1862 H. Spencer First Princ. i. i. §4. 17 In the existence of a religious sentiment..we have a second evidence of great significance. 1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) II. 140 The omission is not of any real significance. 1920 D. H. Lawrence Women in Love xvii. 233 He had lost his significance, he scarcely mattered in her world. 1949 ‘G. Orwell’ Nineteen Eighty-four i. vii. 79 The instant he had flattened it [sc. a fragment of paper] out he saw its significance. 1991 T. Dupuy How to defeat Saddam Hussein ii. 28 The significance of oil and oil economics is undeniable in the current crisis. 3. Statistics. The extent to which an observed numerical result is statistically significant. More fully statistical significance. See also Compounds. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > probability or statistics > [noun] > significance statistical significance1861 significance1888 level of confidence or significance1925 1888 J. Venn Logic of Chance (ed. 3) xix. 486 As before, common sense would feel little doubt that such a difference was significant, but it could give no numerical estimate of the significance. 1947 Biometrika 34 139 Such a difference in levels of significance in the solution of an everyday problem is obviously puzzling. 1970 Nature 25 July 384/2 Calculations of significance are based on the significance of the difference between paired observations using Student's t test. 2010 A. Rubin Statistics Evidence-based Pract. Eval. (ed. 2) 131/1 If our level of significance is 0.05 and our p-value is 0.04, then our finding is statistically significant. Compounds (In sense 3.) significance level n. Statistics the probability at which sets of data, esp. experimental results, are considered statistically significant. ΚΠ 1934 Suppl. Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. 1 191 Significance levels. 1960 Amer. Sociol. Rev. 25 202/2 In the test of this hypothesis a Chi-square of 34·34 was obtained, considerably lower than Chi-square at the ten per cent significance level for 34 degrees of freedom. 2010 H. Motulsky Intuitive Biostatistics (ed. 2) xv. 126 If you choose a stricter significance level, it is..harder to find real effects. significance test n. Statistics a method used to calculate the significance of an observed numerical result. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > probability or statistics > [noun] > significance > test for significance test1902 Student's t-distribution1925 t test1932 Student's t-test1933 1902 Biometrika 1 168 (table) Significance test. 1977 P. Johnson Enemies of Society xi. 157 ‘Results’ used to confirm hypotheses are often no better than random data because significance tests would validate almost anything. 2009 S. Okasha in H. Beebee et al. Oxf. Handbk. Causation xxxv. 712 Once the result of the experiment is in, we can use a significance test to determine the probability of obtaining that result, if the null hypothesis were true. significance testing n. Statistics calculation of the significance of an observed numerical result. ΚΠ 1947 Biometrika 34 36 This coefficient has advantages over Spearman's ρ.., thus facilitating significance testing. 2008 A. Aschengrau & G. R. Seage Essent. Epidemiol. Public Health xii. 315 The chief limitation of significance testing is the use of a purely arbitrary cutoff for deciding whether to reject the null hypothesis. significance threshold n. Statistics = significance level n.; (also) the minimum significant difference between sets of data at a given significance level. ΚΠ 1956 Biol. Effects of Radiation (Proc. Internat. Conf. Peaceful Uses Atomic Energy) XI. 246/1 Applying statistical analysis to the results shown on Table I, with the help of the Student test, using a significance threshold of 5%, it is noted that, with the dose of 1 r, the increase in the irradiated sample with respect to the control is significant. 1983 Ultrasonics 21 168/2 The good correlations found..can be seen from the values of the correlation coefficients which are always much higher than the significance threshold for 99.9% probability. 2009 A. Piquero & D. Weisburd Handbk. Qualitative Criminol. xvi. 317 Clearly, it is much easier to reject the null hypothesis with a 0.10 significance threshold than with a 0.01 significance threshold. significance value n. Statistics = significance threshold n. ΚΠ 1937 G. U. Yule & M. C. Kendall Introd. Theory Statistics (ed. 11) 444 From Appendix Table 6A we see that for these degrees of freedom the 5 per cent. significance value of 2 is 0.6576. 1951 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 17 Feb. 325 The Χ² test gives the value of 10.46, which value is much greater than 3.84, the critical significance value for one degree o freedom. 1983 Powder Technol. 36 116/2 Those with significance values less than 0.64 are poor substitutes. 2006 D. S. Paulson Handbk. Regression & Modeling i. 8 If the test value calculated is less than the significance value, reject H_o. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.a1400
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