significant digit
noun
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Sense 1 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)
he calculated the answer to four significant figures
Types & categories
- digit hypernym
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| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
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| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | digit |