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significant

adj
/sɪɡˈnɪf.ɪ.kənt/UK/sɪɡˈnɪf.ə.kənt/US/ˈsɪɡ.nɪ.fɪ.kᵻnʈ/

Etymology

From Latin significans, present participle of significare, from signum (“sign”) + ficare (“do, make”), variant of facere.

  1. derived from significans

Definitions

  1. Signifying something

    Signifying something; carrying meaning.

    • a significant word or sound
    • a significant look
    • It was well said of Plotinus, that the stars were significant, but not efficient.

  2. Having a noticeable or major effect.

    • That was a significant step in the right direction.
    • The First World War was a significant event.
    • The “little green men”—faces covered, wearing unmarked olive uniforms, speaking Russian and using Russian weapons—have played a significant role in both the occupation of Crimea and the civil war in eastern Ukraine.¹⁹⁶

  3. Reasonably large in number or amount.

  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. Having a covert or hidden meaning.

    2. Having a low probability of occurring by chance (for example, having high correlation and…

      Having a low probability of occurring by chance (for example, having high correlation and thus likely to be related).

    3. Of a digit or figure, see significant figure.

    4. That which has significance

      That which has significance; a sign; a token; a symbol.

      • In dumb significants proclaim your thoughts.
      • And in my glass significants there are

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Derived

consignificant, hypersignificant, least significant bit, least significant byte, most significant bit, most significant byte, nonsignificant, significant digit, significant figure, significantly, significantness, significant other, significant wave height, statistically significant, subsignificant, unsignificant

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at significant. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at significant. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at significant

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA