significant figure
NOUN
18 LETTERS · STARTS WITH S
significant figure is a valid 18-letter word worth 27 points in Scrabble and 33 points in Words with Friends.
SCRABBLE
WORDS WITH FRIENDS
S1I1G2N1I1F4I1C3A1N1T1F4I1G2U1R1E1
1 + 1 + 2 + 1 + 1 + 4 + 1 + 3 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 0 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 1 + 1 + 1 =27 PTS
DOUBLE WORD → 54TRIPLE WORD → 81
MEANING
What does significant figure mean?
NOUN · 1 SENSE
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”
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