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significant figure
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significant figure
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n 1: any digit of a number that is known with certainty; any
digit of a number beginning with the leftmost non-zero
digit and ending with the rightmost non-zero digit (or a
zero considered to be the exact value); "he calculated the
answer to four significant figures" [syn: {significant
digit}, significant figure] |
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Significant figures
(gcide) | Significant \Sig*nif"i*cant\, a. [L. significans, -antis, p. pr.
of significare. See Signify.]
1. Fitted or designed to signify or make known something
having a meaning; standing as a sign or token; expressive
or suggestive; as, a significant word or sound; a
significant look.
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It was well said of Plotinus, that the stars were
significant, but not efficient. --Sir W.
Raleigh.
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2. Deserving to be considered; important; momentous; as, a
significant event.
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Significant figures (Arith.), the figures which remain to
any number, or decimal fraction, after the ciphers at the
right or left are canceled. Thus, the significant figures
of 25,000, or of .0025, are 25.
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