Usually means: Precision digits in a number.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. significant figure: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. significant figure: Merriam-Webster
  3. significant figure: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. significant figure: Vocabulary.com
  5. significant figure: Wiktionary
  6. significant figure: Dictionary.com
  7. Significant figure: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. significant figure: Rhymezone
  9. significant figure: FreeDictionary.org
  10. significant figure: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. significant figure: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. significant figure: Encyclopedia

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  1. General Chemistry Online (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (significant figure)

noun:  (mathematics) A digit that is meaningful with respect to the precision of a measurement; that is, excluding any leading zeroes, trailing rounding or placeholder zeroes, and non-zero digits not warranted by the accuracy of a derivation or measurement.
noun:  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see significant, figure.

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