different between evidential vs significant
evidential
English
Etymology
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??.v??d?n.t??l/
- Hyphenation: ev?i?den?tial
Adjective
evidential (comparative more evidential, superlative most evidential)
- Of or providing evidence.
Related terms
- evidentiality
Translations
evidential From the web:
- what evidence supports the big bang theory
- what evidence supports the endosymbiotic theory
- what evidence supports the theory of continental drift
- what evidence supports the law of conservation of energy
- what evidence supports a conservation law
- what evidential mean
- what does evidentiary mean
- what is evidential burden
significant
English
Etymology
From Latin significans, present participle of significare, from signum (“sign”) + ficare (“do, make”), variant of facere.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /s???n?.f?.k?nt/
- (US, also) IPA(key): /s???n?.f?.??nt/
Adjective
significant (comparative more significant, superlative most significant)
- Signifying something; carrying meaning.
- Synonym: meaningful
- It was well said of Plotinus, that the stars were significant, but not efficient.
- Having a covert or hidden meaning.
- Having a noticeable or major effect.
- Synonym: notable
- Reasonably large in number or amount.
- (statistics) Having a low probability of occurring by chance (for example, having high correlation and thus likely to be related).
Usage notes
- This word may be ambiguous in some situations. In formal writing, care should be taken with comments such as "the difference is significant," because it is not clear without contextual clues whether significant modifies the fact that there is a difference ("notable"), or the difference itself ("large in number or amount"). In some such situations, large and other synonyms may be used in its place.
Synonyms
- important
Antonyms
- insignificant
- ignorable
- negligible
- slight
Related terms
- significance
- significand
- significant other
- signify
Translations
Noun
significant (plural significants)
- That which has significance; a sign; a token; a symbol.
- a. 1850, William Wordsworth, The Egyptian Maid
- And in my glass significants there are
- a. 1850, William Wordsworth, The Egyptian Maid
References
significant in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Catalan
Verb
significant
- present participle of significar
Latin
Verb
significant
- third-person plural present active indicative of signific?
significant From the web:
- what significant mean
- what significant event happened in 1966
- what significant event happened at the battles of lexington and concord
- what significant event happened in 1848
- what significant changes happened in 1942
- what significant economic challenge did
- what does significant mean
- what does significantly significant mean
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