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SIGNIFICANT DIGIT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does significant digit mean? 

SIGNIFICANT DIGIT (noun)
  The noun SIGNIFICANT DIGIT has 1 sense:

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)play

  Familiarity information: SIGNIFICANT DIGIT used as a noun is very rare.


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SIGNIFICANT DIGIT (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

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)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

significant digit; significant figure

Context example:

he calculated the answer to four significant figures

Hypernyms ("significant digit" is a kind of...):

digit; figure (one of the elements that collectively form a system of numeration)


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