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significant figure
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun significant figure has 1 sense
- significant figure(n = noun.quantity) significant digit - 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" is a kind of digit, figure
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