significant figures
Britishplural noun
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the figures of a number that express a magnitude to a specified degree of accuracy, rounding up or down the final figure
3.141 59 to four significant figures is 3.142
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the number of such figures Compare decimal place
3.142 has four significant figures
Example Sentences
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Shortly after the bill’s contents were released on Wednesday, many significant figures in the college-sports industry offered their thoughts.
From MarketWatch • May 28, 2026
There are a number of significant figures at risk in this election.
From BBC • May 7, 2026
“Preppy dressing is back. The old money vibe is back, the obsession with Carolyn Bessette,” said Alt, who made her name selling apartments that often belonged to artists and other significant figures.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 15, 2025
“To know that some of the most significant figures in American social and political life support the Enhanced Games is more important to us than any investment,” he said on a video call in February.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 16, 2025
Such significant figures are borrowed by decorators from other branches of art.
From Origin and Development of Form and Ornament in Ceramic Art. Fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1882-1883, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1886, pages 437-466. by Holmes, William Henry
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