Définition de significant en anglais

significant

adjective

/sɪɡˈnɪf.ɪ.kənt/ us

/sɪɡˈnɪf.ə.kənt/

significant adjective (IMPORTANT)

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(also significative)

important or noticeable:

There has been a significant increase in the number of women students in recent years.

The talks between the USA and the USSR were very significant for the relationship between the two countries.

There was no significative change of blood pressure.

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having great effect or influence

importantIt was one of the most important legal cases of the century.
bigThis is a big match tonight - if we lose, we won't be in the playoffs.
majorThis is a major decision so we'd better get it right.
significantDid he make any significant changes to my suggestions?

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Is there any significant difference in quality between these two items?
Research in the field of genito-urinary medicine has led to significant health advances in the last decade.
The institution of a Freedom of Information Act has had a significant effect.
You have all invested significant amounts of time and energy in making this project the success that it is.
Lotus make luxury cars for a small but significant niche market.
The treatment resulted in a major and significative reduction of the pain.

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Very important or urgent

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significant adjective (SPECIAL MEANING)

having a special meaning:

She looked at him across the table and gave him a significant smile.

Do you think it's significant that he hasn't replied to my letter yet?

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Meaning & significance

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(Définition de significant depuis le Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

«significant» en anglais américain

significant

adjective

/sɪɡˈnɪf·ɪ·kənt/

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important, large, or great, esp. in leading to a different result or to an important change:

This election reaffirms a significant shift of the center of power.

Marriage is a significant commitment.

significance

noun [ U ] us

/sɪɡˈnɪf·ɪ·kəns/

The full significance of space exploration may not be understood for many years to come.

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Results must be described concisely and discussion limited to the significant new findings.

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Extending the time duration of plume removal beyond 10 ms does not result in a significant decrease in energy.

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Because a significant portion of the labour force was becoming redundant, pauperization loomed large.

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In the two different regions, however, there does appear to be a significant difference in the balance achieved between these two opposing pulls.

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It was most significant from the reported participation from over 25 countries worldwide that there is a great interest in the development of such methodologies.

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Only the significant results are reported in the table.

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There was a significant relation between reaction times on the identification task and past burden of illness, particularly past number of depressions.

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Phonological sequence learning is a significant predictor of receptive vocabulary learning.

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The behaviorally oriented intervention produced significant reductions in coercive parenting and improvements in positive parenting.

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In both cases the effect of mental disorder remained strongly significant.

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We can then infer that the removed variable functions as a significant mediator between the predictor and criterion variables.

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Variables that were not statistically significant at conventional levels were not removed from the model.

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There may be whole groups of people who are not represented by the written sources but who played significant roles in the processes under consideration.

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There was a significant effect of site on the proportion of surviving seedlings and on the relative growth rates in terms of leaf number.

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This chapter includes a significant amount of technical information that may be beyond the nonspecialist audience.

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Traductions de significant

en chinois traditionnel

重要, 重要的, 顯著的…

Définition de significant en anglais

significant adjective (IMPORTANT)

significant adjective (SPECIAL MEANING)

«significant» en anglais américain

significance

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