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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

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);
- Example: "he calculated the answer to four significant figures"
[syn: significant digit, significant figure]



WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

significant figure
    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]