# significant
## English
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /sɪɡˈnɪf.ɪ.kənt/
* (US) IPA: /sɪɡˈnɪf.ə.kənt/, /sɪɡˈnɪf.ə.ɡənt/
** Audio (US):(file)

### Adjective

significant (comparative more significant, superlative most significant)
* Signifying something; carrying meaning.
    Synonym: meaningful
    a significant word or sound
    a significant look
** 1614, Walter Ralegh [i.e., Walter Raleigh], The Historie of the World […], London: […] William Stansby for Walter Burre, […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=1 to 5):It was well said of Plotinus, that the stars were significant, but not efficient.
** 1856, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, chapter III, in The Wreck of the Golden Mary, part two, page 99:As evening came on, it grew prematurely dark and cloudy; while the waves acquired that dull indigo tint so significant of ugly weather.
* Having a noticeable or major effect.
    Synonym: notable
    That was a significant step in the right direction.
    The First World War was a significant event.
** 2015, Shane R. Reeves, David Wallace, “The Combatant Status of the “Little Green Men” and Other Participants in the Ukraine Conflict”, in International Law Studies, US Naval War College‎, volume 91, number 361, Stockton Center for the Study of International Law, page 393: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.$^{196}$
* Reasonably large in number or amount.
* Having a covert or hidden meaning.
* (statistics) Having a low probability of occurring by chance (for example, having high correlation and thus likely to be related).
* (mathematics) Of a digit or figure, see significant figure.

#### Synonyms

Sense 1 (meaningful):
* important

#### Antonyms

* insignificant
* ignorable
* negligible
* slight

#### Derived terms

* least significant bit
* least significant byte
* most significant bit
* most significant byte
* nonsignificant
* significant digit
* significant figure
* significant other
* significant wave height
* statistically significant

#### Related terms

* significance
* significand
* signify

#### Translations
### Noun

significant (plural significants)
* That which has significance; a sign; a token; a symbol.
** 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv]:In dumb significants proclaim your thoughts.
** a. 1850, William Wordsworth, The Egyptian Maid:And in my glass significants there are

### References

* “significant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

## Catalan
### Verb

significant
* gerund of significar

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin significāns.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

significant (comparative significanter, superlative significantst)
* significant
    Synonym: beduidend
    Antonyms: insignificant, onbeduidend

#### Derived terms

* insignificant
* significantie

## Latin
### Verb

significant
* third-person plural present active indicative of significō