significant figure

1. 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)

   “he calculated the answer to four significant figures”

   Synonymssignificant digit

   Broaderdigit

Questions about significant figure

What does significant figure mean?

significant figure means "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)".

What is another word for significant figure?

Close synonyms include significant digit. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.