Significance vs Description - What's the difference?
significance | description |
The extent to which something matters; importance
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Meaning.
A sketch or account of anything in words; a portraiture or representation in language; an enumeration of the essential qualities of a thing or species.
The act of describing; a delineation by marks or signs.
A set of characteristics by which someone or something can be recognized.
(biology) A scientific documentation of a specimen intended to reveal a new species by technically explaining its characteristics and particularly how it differs from other species.
As nouns the difference between significance and description
is that significance is the extent to which something matters; importance while description is a sketch or account of anything in words; a portraiture or representation in language; an enumeration of the essential qualities of a thing or species.significance
English
(wikipedia significance)Noun
(en noun)- As a juror your opinion is of great significance for the outcome of the trial.
- Of more significance in the nature of branch development; in the Jubulaceae, as in the Porellaceae, branches are acroscopic and normally replace a ventral leaf lobe.
- the significance of a gesture
See also
* Significance level (statistics). * Statistical significance.description
English
(wikipedia description)Noun
(en noun)- The type description of the fungus was written by a botanist.