significant
IPA: sʌgnˈɪfɪkʌnt
noun
- That which has significance; a sign; a token; a symbol.
adjective
- Signifying something; carrying meaning.
- Having a covert or hidden meaning.
- Having a noticeable or major effect.
- Reasonably large in number or amount.
- (statistics) Having a low probability of occurring by chance (for example, having high correlation and thus likely to be related).
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Examples of "significant" in Sentences
- Are the blackboards significant
- The difference is sizable and significant.
- The influence of the changes is significant.
- It is significant to the planning of the community.
- The verse of purification is the most important and significant verse.
- The project is major so the starter of the project is also significant.
- The SEC's proposal asks questions about whether the SEC should define the term "significant error."
- As I would soon learn, not only was the word significant here but its specific connection with lilies was important as well.
- "If the commission were to define the term significant error ... we believe it would effectively be substituting its judgment" for the credit-rating agencies, S&P President Deven Sharma said in the letter.
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