relevant

relevant: rel·e·vant /'re-lə-vənt/ adj

1: tending logically to prove or disprove a fact of consequence or to make the fact more or less probable and thereby aiding the trier of fact in making a decision

determined that the evidence was relevant; also: having a bearing on or reasonably calculated to lead to a matter that bears on any issue in a case for purposes of pretrial discovery see also relevant evidence at evidence

2: having significant and demonstrable bearing on facts or issues

was not a relevant case

relevant: I adjective ad rem spectare, admissible, affinitive, allied, applicable, apposite, appropriate, appurtenant, apropos, apt, associated, cognate, compatible, concerning, conformant, conforming, congruent, congruous, connected, consentaneous, consistent, consonant, correlated, correspondent, felicitous, fit, fitting, germane, important, material, pertaining to, pertinent, proper, referring to, related, relative, seasonable, suitable, tied in with, to the point, to the purpose associated concepts: relevant evidence, relevant question II index akin (germane), applicable, apposite, appropriate, congruous, correlative, felicitous, fit, fitting, germane, important (significant), interrelated, material (important), pertinent, proper, related, suitable, valuable

relevant: adj.
Closely connected or logically related to the matter at hand.
n.
relevance, relevancy

relevant: Having some reasonable connection with, and in regard to evidence in trial, having some value or tendency to prove a matter of fact significant to the case. A common objection to testimony or physical evidence is that it is irrelevant.

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relevant: adj.

having some reasonable connection with, and in regard to evidence in trial, having some value or tendency to prove a matter of fact significant to the case. Commonly, an objection to testimony or physical evidence is that it is "irrelevant."

See also: irrelevant, objection

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Synonyms:

Pertinent, applicable, fit, proper, apt, suitable, appropriate, apposite, to the purpose, to the point

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relevant — RELEVÁNT, Ă, relevanţi, te, adj. Care relevă, care scoate sau iese în evidenţă. – Din fr. relevant. cf. r e l e v a. Trimis de RACAI, 22.11.2003. Sursa: DEX 98 relevánt adj. m., pl. relevánţi; f. sg. r … Dicționar Român
Relevant — Saltar a navegación, búsqueda Relevant País … Wikipedia Español
relevant — relevant, germane, material, pertinent, apposite, applicable, apropos are comparable when they mean having a relation to or a bearing upon the matter in hand or the present circumstances. Something relevant has a traceable connection, especially… … New Dictionary of Synonyms
Relevant — may refer to:* Relevant operator, a concept in physics, see renormalization group * Relevant, Ain, a commune of the Ain département in France * Relevant Magazine , an American religious publication *Relevant (horse), a famous Oldenburg horse in… … Wikipedia
relevant — Adj bedeutsam erw. fach. (20. Jh.) Entlehnung. Entlehnt aus e. relevant, dieses aus l. relevans, dem Partizip Präsens zu l. relevāre in die Höhe heben aus l. levāre heben und l. re . Ebenso nndl. relevant, nschw. relevant, nnorw. relevant;… … Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen sprache
relevant — [rel′ə vənt] adj. [ML relevans, prp. of relevare, to bear upon < L, to lift up: see RELIEVE] bearing upon or relating to the matter in hand; pertinent; to the point relevance n. relevancy relevantly adv. SYN. RELEVANT implies close logical… … English World dictionary
Relevant — Rel e*vant ( vant), a. [F. relevant, p. pr. of relever to raise again, to relieve. See {Relieve}.] 1. Relieving; lending aid or support. [R.] Pownall. [1913 Webster] 2. Bearing upon, or properly applying to, the case in hand; pertinent;… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
relevant — »bedeutsam, ‹ge›wichtig«: Das seit dem 17. Jh. bezeugte Adjektiv ist wohl aus der mlat. Fügung relevantes articuli »berechtigte, beweiskräftige Argumente (im Rechtsstreit)« entlehnt. Lat. relevans ist das Part. Präs. von lat. re levare »in die… … Das Herkunftswörterbuch
relevant — Adj. (Aufbaustufe) geh.: von großer Bedeutung, maßgebend Synonyme: ausschlaggebend, bedeutsam, entscheidend, maßgeblich, wesentlich, wichtig, essenziell (geh.), signifikant (geh.) Beispiel: Diese Frage ist für uns sehr relevant … Extremes Deutsch
Relevant — (lat.), erheblich, wichtig; Relevanz, Erheblichkeit, besonders eines Rechtsmittels; Gegensatz: irrelevant (s. d.) … Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon

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