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How to pronounce significant in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms meaning, pregnant
Derivation significance, signify


a significant silence.
Type Words
Synonyms important
Derivation significance


a significant change in tax laws.
a significant change in the Constitution.
a significant contribution.
significant details.
statistically significant.
Type Words
Synonyms substantial
Type Words


the interaction effect is significant at the .01 level.
no significant difference was found.

Examples of significant

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Major expressways remained open and had no significant accidents all night long.
From the washingtontimes.com
A significant change to the Division II landscape in lacrosse occurred Saturday.
From the newsday.com
It took some time to cope with such a significant lifestyle change, Alfrey said.
From the thenewstribune.com
It appears at first glance that the taxpayer has achieved a significant victory.
From the washingtontimes.com
If there is serious damage to Denver's most photographed, most significant park?
From the denverpost.com
Russo stands to earn a significant raise from his current pay of about $214,000.
From the sfgate.com
The move will not result in any significant staff addition, Gopalakrishnan said.
From the forbes.com
To lose either one would put us at a significant disadvantage in job attraction.
From the courier-journal.com
That is a significant amount and will help support hundreds of local businesses.
From the kentucky.com
More examples
  • Important in effect or meaning; "a significant change in tax laws"; "a significant change in the Constitution"; "a significant contribution"; "significant details"; "statistically significant"
  • Fairly large; "won by a substantial margin"
  • 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"
  • Meaning(a): rich in significance or implication; "a meaning look"
  • (significantly) importantly: in an important way or to an important degree; "more importantly, Weber held that the manifold meaning attached to the event by the social scientist could alter his definition of the concrete event itself"
  • (Significance (journal)) Significance, established in 2004, is a magazine published quarterly by the Royal Statistical Society. The major part of the content consists of well-founded articles on topics of statistical interest, presented at a level suited to a general audience.
  • (Significance (policy debate)) Significance is a stock issue in policy debate which establishes the importance of the harms in the status quo. ...
  • (Significance (statistics)) In statistics, a result is called statistically significant if it is unlikely to have occurred by chance. The phrase test of significance was coined by Ronald Fisher. ...
  • Signifying something; carrying meaning; Having a covert or hidden meaning; Having a noticeable or major effect; notable; Reasonably large in number or amount; Having a low probability of occurring by chance (for example, having high correlation and thus likely to be related)