significant figure

基本解释

Interviewer: ...of a significant figure.
问：一个重要人物之死？
Berlusconi is a significant figure, and Italy an experimental laboratory where our future is being worked out.
贝鲁斯科尼是一个重要的人物，而意大利就是我们这位重要人物造出来的实验室。
One suitable definition of significant figure is introduced and the reasonable data treatment result in measuring resistance with voltmeter-ammeter method is obtained.
本文介绍了一种较具适用性的有效数字的定义，并给出了伏安法测电阻时数据处理的合理结果。

In an appearance Friday, in Allentown,Pennsylvania , President Obama called the November jobs figure "modestly encouraging" but said he will not be satisfied until there is sustained significant improvement.

Following Mr Libi's presumed death, perhaps the only significant figure believed to be left there is Ayman al-Zawahiri, the group's leader since bin Laden's assassination.
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Last year, 136, 222 American-made vehicles were exported to China, a significant figure considering that auto exports to that nation totaled less than 1, 000 as recently as 2003.
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This is a significant figure to note, because for example, shares of Apple have been short sold only about 0.5%, Samsung over 2% and other telecom companies about 4% in general.
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有效数
The multivariate statistical method mainly involves significant figure calculation, stepped regressive analysis and Krig interpolation. Significant figure determines which seismic attribute may be applied to reservoir prediction, and useful seismic attribute can be thus chosen properly.
在多元统计方法中，主要应用了有效数计算、逐步回归分析和Krig插值等方法。
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有效数字