the scientist corresponds with colleagues in order to learn about matters relevant to her own research.
Examples of relevant
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Which one is relevant depends, it turns out, on the economic status of families.
From the online.wsj.com
If Gardenhire has a relevant flaw, it's that he is highly emotional and intense.
From the sacbee.com
Time for the Rangers to become relevant, after 50 years of being everything but.
From the sportsillustrated.cnn.com
For the average person, it's the mass ejection that's most immediately relevant.
From the time.com
In my view, her ideas are much more relevant and realistic than Michael Moore's.
From the forbes.com
It doesn't always work, but it should improve your chances of a relevant result.
From the telegraph.co.uk
As I said when I was there, they are very relevant to the future of the country.
From the scoop.co.nz
The best ones have a few relevant talking points, with nothing much behind them.
From the economist.com
If they so choose, they can also share relevant messages using the same ZenPage.
From the techcrunch.com
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Having a bearing on or connection with the subject at issue; "the scientist corresponds with colleagues in order to learn about matters relevant to her own research"
(relevantly) with relevance
(relevance) the relation of something to the matter at hand
Relevance describes how pertinent, connected, or applicable something is to a given matter. A thing is relevant if it serves as a means to a given purpose. Imagine a patient suffering a well-defined disease such as scurvy caused by lack of vitamin C. ...
(Relevance (information retrieval)) In information science and information retrieval, relevance denotes how well a retrieved document or set of documents meets the information need of the user.
(Relevance (law)) Relevance, in the common law of evidence, is the tendency of a given item of evidence to prove or disprove one of the legal elements of the case, or to have probative value to make one of the elements of the case likelier or not. ...
Directly related, connected, or pertinent to a topic; Not out of date; current
(Relevance) is the likelihood that a given web page will be of interest or useful to a search engine user for a keyword search.
The document relevance bar is an expression of the calculated relevance of this document compared to the other documents in the same result set. Ranges are from zero to 100, where 100 is the most relevant. ...