Spotlight: What does "last opened" mean?

There are so many things that were obvious in the old Mac search feature that are unintuitive in spotlight. For example, when you complete a search, you have three columns, name, kind and last opened. What does "last opened" mean?
Say I try to export a file from an application, and I don't know where I saved it. When I do a search for the file name, I get hundreds of results, as usual, and I can't find it in the list. When I click the "last opened" column, will that make it jump to the top of the list? I never actually OPENED it! I just exported it. There is no "date created" column.

"If files have unique names, why would there be hundreds of them? "
I had just named the file "Test" and there are a lot of files that have that as part of the name.

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