significant

  1. Adjective.  Signifying something; carrying meaning.
  2. Adjective.  Having a covert or hidden meaning.
  3. Adjective.  Having a noticeable or major effect; notable.
  4. Adjective.  Reasonably large in number or amount.
  5. Adjective.  (statistics) Having a low probability of occurring by chance (for example, having high correlation and thus likely to be related).

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