1. Ampleur.
2. Portée. L'importance d'une décision.
3. Influence. L'importance d'un talent.
1. Dignified manner or conduct; SYN. comportment, presence, mien.
2. Device placed between moving parts to allow them to move easily, with a minimum of friction.
3. Relevant relation or interconnection:
4. The direction or path along which something moves or along which it lies; SYN. heading, aim.
1. A person (such as an actor or musician or celebrity) brought from a foreign country.
2. Goods or services bought from a foreign country.
Product or service that one country purchases from another for domestic consumption, or for processing and reexporting (Hong Kong, for example, is heavily dependent on imports for its export business). Imports may be visible (goods) or invisible (services). If an importing country does not have a counterbalancing value of exports, it may experience balance-of-payments difficulties and accordingly consider restricting imports by some form of protectionism (such as an import tariff or import quotas).
ETYM French importance. Related to Important.
1. A prominent status; SYN. grandness.
2. The quality of being important and worthy of note.
ETYM Latin magnitudo, from magnus great. Related to Master, Maxim.
The size of a number, regardless of its sign (+ or –). For example, 16 and –16 have the same magnitude. See also absolute value.
1. Relative importance.
2. The property of relative size or extent.
The quality of having great value or significance.
ETYM French moment, Latin momentum, for movimentum movement, motion, moment, from movere to move. Related to Move, Momentum, Movement.
1. A particular point in time; SYN. minute, second, instant.
2. An indefinitely short time; SYN. minute, second, bit.
3. The moment of a couple is the product of its force and the distance between its opposing forces.
4. The n-th moment of a distribution is the expected value of the n-th power of the deviations from a fixed value.
The quality or state of being pertinent; relevance
ETYM Latin praevalentia: cf. French prévalence. Related to Prevail.
1. The quality of prevailing generally; being widespread.
2. The degree to which something is prevalent; especially; the percentage of a population that is affected with a particular disease at a given time.
ETYM Latin significantia.
1. A meaning that is not expressly stated but can be inferred; SYN. import, implication.
2. The quality of being significant.