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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: Yougang Xiao who wrote (54545)4/7/1999 3:44:00 PM
From: RDM  Read Replies (2) of 1577347
 
significant (1st meaning is appropriate)
1. Fitted or designed to signify or make known somethingl having a meaning; standing as a sign or token; expressive or suggestive; as, a significant word or sound; a significant look.

substantial (1st and 2nd meaning not most appropriate)
3. Corporeal; material; firm.

Translation of RDM:
1. significant loss means more than trivial, above round off error.
2. substantial loss means of substance hence important.

In my book substantial should be bigger than significant but by how much I do not know.

Is Raza a native speaker?
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