Usually means: Digits conveying precision in measurement.
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General (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. significant figures: Collins English Dictionary
  2. significant figures: Vocabulary.com
  3. significant figures: Wordnik
  4. significant figures: Wiktionary
  5. significant figures: Dictionary.com
  6. Significant figures: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. significant figures: FreeDictionary.org
  8. significant figures: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Significant figures: Encyclopedia

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Significant Figures: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics

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Definitions from Wikipedia (Significant figures)

noun:  Significant figures, also referred to as significant digits or sig figs, are specific digits within a number written in positional notation that carry both reliability and necessity in conveying a particular quantity.


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