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Meaning of relevant in English

relevant
adjective
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/ˈrel.ə.vənt/ us
/ˈrel.ə.vənt/
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connected with what is happening or being discussed:
Education should be relevant to the child's needs.
For further information, please refer to the relevant leaflet.
The point is highly relevant to this discussion.
I'm sorry but your personal wishes are not relevant (= important) in this case.
Opposite
irrelevant
correct or suitable for a particular purpose:
plans to make schooling more relevant to life beyond school
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(Definition of relevant from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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relevant
adjective
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/ˈrel·ə·vənt/
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related to a subject or to something happening or being discussed:
We turned over relevant documents to the investigating team.

relevance

noun [ U ] us
/ˈrel·ə·vəns/ (also relevancy, us/ˈrel·ə·vən·si/)
the relevance of railroads to the development of the American west
(Definition of relevant from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of relevant

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Section 1 reviews the relevant literature on retirement plans and saving, education and saving, and behavioral economics.
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I chose it because it is recent, brief and relevant to ordinary people.
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Without a better understanding of popular terminology and establishment of clear philosophical goals, it will be impossible to design and conduct relevant crop/livestock research.
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This implies that a weak solution is physically relevant with respect to both models at the same time.
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Additional references were identified through searching bibliographies of related publications and through contact with relevant topic experts and industry.
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Actual choices are relevant not to the idea of the right but rather to its direction of exercise with respect to the protected domain.
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Moreover, by working with the entire population of existing design solutions, it makes the indexation and selection of relevant cases redundant.
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Suppose two people disagree about an important issue, and the disagreement is not due to one party's epistemic negligence or obliviousness to relevant evidence.
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This is mainly due to the paucity of relevant pathological studies.
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The probabilistic model ranks documents according to their probability of being relevant to a query - the ordering principle.
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A second relevant concern here is whether we can treat the 901 respondents in our sample as a random subset of all survey participants.
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This filter mechanism is achieved in our approach by defining the relevant concepts and roles needed to describe solutions to a configuration problem.
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Many doctors who worked in the relevant period must be available for questioning and hospital records have survived.
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The basic problem: most chaotic systems' chaotic properties don't seem very relevant, directly or indirectly, to human life.
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Devising relevant tables for each system concerned may not be feasible.
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in Chinese (Traditional)
有關的, 相關聯的, 切題的…
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有关的, 相关联的, 切题的…
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pertinente, relevante [masculine-feminine, singular]…
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relevante…
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समर्पक…
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関連した, 関係のある, 関連（かんれん）のある…
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...ile ilgili, ....a/e uyan, faydalı…
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pertinent/-ente, pertinent (à)…
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என்ன நடக்கிறது அல்லது விவாதிக்கப்படுகிறது என்பதோடு இணைக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது, ஒரு குறிப்பிட்ட நோக்கத்திற்காக சரியானது அல்லது பொருத்தமானது…
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(होने वाली घटनाओं, या चर्चा) के अनुरूप, प्रासंगिक…
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સુસંગત, (ઘટના, અથવા ચર્ચા) સાથે સંબંધિત…
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relevant, vigtig…
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relevant…
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berhubung…
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sachdienlich…
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relevant, aktuell, som angår saken…
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مناسبت, برمحل, حسب حال…
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доречний…
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సంబంధితమైన, ఒక ప్రత్యేక ఉపయోగం కోసం సరైన లేదా సరిపోయే…
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প্রাসঙ্গিক, একটি নির্দিষ্ট উদ্দেশ্যের জন্যে সঠিক বা উপযুক্ত…
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závažný…
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relevan…
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เข้าประเด็น…
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liên quan…
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istotny, znaczący, stosowny…
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적절한, 관련있는…
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pertinente, attinente…
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