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Applicability

Applicability \Ap`pli*ca*bil"i*ty\, n. The quality of being applicable or fit to be applied.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
applicability

1650s, from applicable + -ity.

Wiktionary
applicability

n. The degree to which a thing is applicable; relevancy

WordNet
applicability

n. relevance by virtue of being applicable to the matter at hand [syn: pertinence, pertinency] [ant: inapplicability]

Usage examples of "applicability".

States and the National Government are regarded as mutually complementary parts of a single governmental mechanism all of whose powers are intended to realize the current purposes of government according to their applicability to the problem in hand.

This problem has arisen most often with reference to the applicability of State laws to the operation of national banks.

No doubt it shows at the same time how uncertain Origen was as to the applicability of popular conceptions when he was dealing with the sphere of the Psychici.

And yet its applicability was simply due to the language of the stage.

If you share the belief that the laws of physics should not be fragmented into those that govern the large and those that govern the small, and if you also believe that we should not rest until we have a theory whose range of applicability is limitless, string theory is the only game in town.

The conviction of the applicability of mathematical concepts to the description of natural events is grounded in his discovery of the so-called Parallelogram of Forces.

In real life, the biomedical sciences have not yet reached the stage of any kind of general applicability to disease mechanisms.

These rising grounds which command the champaign below, seem to ask for lords, true lords, _land_-lords, who understand the land and its uses, and the applicabilities of men, and whose government would be what it should, namely, mediation between want and supply.

Of the ten principles Creevey had expounded, nine would have permanent applicability.

However, the real question this observation raised for us was this: Were we pushing mirror symmetry beyond the bounds of its applicability?

After all, we don't hold a gun to their heads and tell them that their doctoral theses must have some applicability to the real world.