Mathematical English Usage - a Glossary

by Jerzy Trzeciak

significant

[see also: considerable, important, substantial]

This can result in a significant loss of smoothness.

It is important to recognize that there is a significant subclass of vector fields for which the ambiguity alluded to above disappears.

In all our analysis, only the order of magnitude of P will be significant.

Their result gives no information when k is large, whereas (5) is significant regardless of the size of k.


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