importance
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- noun
- /ɪmˈpɔrtəns/
- Specialized
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importancia
- Researchers often measure the importance of various parameters to evaluate their contribution to the overall performance.
- relative importance
- feature importance
- importance ratings
Examples
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Although similar skills contribute to reading proficiency across the age span, the relative importance of these skills changes with development.
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The number of high-loading documents served as a measure of importance for each topic theme (factor).
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You mean the importance of specific practice practices, right?
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I was really focused on Gee, what do I do to make people aware of the importance of the image of the Earth from space?
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The Economic and Military Importance of the Canal to the United States.
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You know, Blaze, he understood the importance of zero.
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It is, as they say, a matter of national importance.
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They begin to sense the importance of wrestling with those things and they understand what scholarship is all about.
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We ranked topic factors by importance, or in descending order of SMS document count.
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Finally, we evaluated the relative importance of parent-child agreement when predicting children's general feelings about sport participation.
Academic text (2008)
Synonyms
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A number that shows how important something is in a calculation or model
Compounds
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Importance comes from the same root as import and important, which once meant 'to carry' and so 'to have weight' or 'to matter'. So, in data science, importance is a number that shows how much a feature 'matters' to the model's predictions.