APPLICABILITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does applicability mean? 

• APPLICABILITY (noun)
  The noun APPLICABILITY has 1 sense:

1. relevance by virtue of being applicable to the matter at hand

  Familiarity information: APPLICABILITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• APPLICABILITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Relevance by virtue of being applicable to the matter at hand

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Synonyms:

applicability; pertinence; pertinency

Hypernyms ("applicability" is a kind of...):

relevance; relevancy (the relation of something to the matter at hand)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "applicability"):

germaneness (pertinence by virtue of a close relation to the matter at hand)

Antonym:

inapplicability (irrelevance by virtue of being inapplicable to the matter at hand)

Derivation:

applicable (capable of being applied; having relevance)

 Context examples 

This was bad enough; but, as the philosophic Dane observes, with that universal applicability which distinguishes the illustrious ornament of the Elizabethan Era, worse remains behind!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Much research is devoted to studying therapies that attempt to alter the immune system’s role in inherited diseases such as retinitis pigmentosa because such treatments would have broad applicability, regardless of a patient’s causative mutation, said the study’s principal investigator Wai T Wong, M.D., Ph.D., chief the Neuron-Glia Interactions in Retinal Disease Section at NEI.

(Immune system can slow degenerative eye disease, National Institutes of Health)

The platform delivers results comparable to those of standard laboratories, and its applicability extends to any compounds that can be measured by means of classical electrochemical analytical techniques, which are very common in this area.

(Scientists design platform to conduct chemical analysis using a smartphone, University of Granada)