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English noun: significant figure | |||
| 1. | significant figure (quantity) 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) | ||
| Samples | He calculated the answer to four significant figures. | ||
| Synonyms | significant digit | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | digit, figure | ||
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