Significant figures Meaning, Definition & Usage
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noun 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)
significant figure; significant digit.
- he calculated the answer to four significant figures
WordNet
Definitions
(Arith.) , the figures which remain to any number, or decimal fraction, after the ciphers at the right or left are canceled.Thus, the .significant figures of 25,000, or of .0025, are 25
