significant : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: significant	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for significant
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
significant adj important in effect or meaning; "a significant change in tax laws"; "a significant change in the Constitution"; "a significant contribution"; "significant details"; "statistically significant" Synonym(s): significant, important Antonym(s): insignificant, unimportant fairly large; "won by a substantial margin" Synonym(s): significant, substantial too closely correlated to be attributed to chance and therefore indicating a systematic relation; "the interaction effect is significant at the .01 level"; "no significant difference was found" Antonym(s): nonsignificant rich in significance or implication; "a meaning look" Synonym(s): meaning(a), pregnant, significant
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Significant \Signif"icant\, n. That which has significance; a sign; a token; a symbol. --Wordsworth. In dumb significants proclaim your thoughts. --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Significant \Signif"icant\, a. [L. significans, -antis, p. pr. of significare. See {Signify}.] 1. Fitted or designed to signify or make known somethingl having a meaning; standing as a sign or token; expressive or suggestive; as, a significant word or sound; a significant look. It was well said of Plotinus, that the stars were significant, but not efficient. --Sir W. Raleigh. 2. Deserving to be considered; important; momentous; as, a significant event. {Significant figures} (Arith.), the figures which remain to any number, or decimal fraction, after the ciphers at the right or left are canceled. Thus, the significant figures of 25,000, or of .0025, are 25.