Meaning: An exclusive circle of people with a common purpose. Classified under: Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects. Synonyms: clique; coterie; ingroup; inner circle; camp; pack. Hypernyms (clique is a kind of...): band; circle; lot; set (an unofficial association of people or groups) Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of clique):
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Relevance is the concept of one topic being connected to another topic in a way that makes it useful to consider the first topic when considering the second. The concept of relevance is studied in many different fields, including cognitive sciences, logic, and library and information science. Most fundamentally, however, it is studied in epistemology (the theory of knowledge).
Relevance Principle. The relevance principle is an accounting principle that states in order for financial information to be useful to external users, it must be relevant. GAAP goes on to describe the concept of relevance. Relevant information is useful, understandable, timely, and needed for decision making.