relevance, relevancy
(noun) the relation of something to the matter at hand
Source: WordNet® 3.1
relevancy (countable and uncountable, plural relevancies)
(legal, Scotland) Sufficiency (of a statement, claim etc.) to carry weight in law; legal pertinence. [from 16th c.]
(uncountable) The degree to which a thing is relevant; relevance, applicability. [from 17th c.]
(countable) A relevant thing. [from 19th c.]
• In contemporary usage relevance is about 20 times more common in the US (COCA) and about 50 times more common in the UK (BNC) than relevancy.
• irrelevancy
Source: Wiktionary
Rel"e*vance, Rel"e*van*cy, n.
1. The quality or state of being relevant; pertinency; applicability. Its answer little meaning, little relevancy bore. Poe.
2. (Scots Law)
Definition: Sufficiency to infer the conclusion.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
4 April 2025
(verb) kill by cutting the head off with a guillotine; “The French guillotined many Vietnamese while they occupied the country”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
