Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun significant_figure

1 sense of significant figure

Sense 1
significant digit, significant figure -- (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); "he calculated the answer to four significant figures")
       => digit, figure -- (one of the elements that collectively form a system of numeration; "0 and 1 are digits")