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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"; "pregnant with meaning"
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domestic partner: a person (not necessarily a spouse) with whom you cohabit and share a long-term sexual relationship
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In statistics, describes a mathematical measure of difference between groups. The difference is said to be significant if it is greater than what might be expected to happen by chance alone. Also called statistically significant.
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A quantity, amount, or degree of importance determined by a State or local government.
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(statistics) A term applied to differences, correlation, etc., to indicate that they are probably not due to chance alone; usually indicates a probability of not less than 95 percent.
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