significantly

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The Nissan Leaf has a terrible time of it, with the range decreased significantly.

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in a statistically significant way; "the two groups differed significantly"

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adverb

in a statistically significant way; "the two groups differed significantly"

adverb

in a significant manner; "our budget will be significantly affected by these new cuts"

adverb

in an important way or to an important degree; "more importantly, Weber held that the manifold meaning attached to the event by the social scientist could alter his definition of the concrete event itself"

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Core meanings and parts of speech for significantly.

adverb

in a statistically significant way; "the two groups differed significantly"

adverb

in a significant manner; "our budget will be significantly affected by these new cuts"

adverb

Example sentences

The Nissan Leaf has a terrible time of it, with the range decreased significantly.

And our sales for those first few hours on the first of the month are substantially and significantly higher.

Apartheid was BAD, and still affects the country significantly today.

"It is astounding how significantly one idea can shape a society and its policies.

> The Unix Design is significantly less granular than that of Windows, not even having a basic ACL.

Such copying is deemed fair because, while not significantly impairing the true commercial rights of copyright holders, it furthers the progress of arts and science.

And while it sounds unlike Google to have left room to do significantly better, the way they treat the innocent implies their technology may be insufficient.

A new phone with a slightly higher resolution screen, but significantly smaller than the existing competition.

It's going to make it significantly harder to hire actual talent, it's going to cause morale decay and revolt from within the company, and it erodes Zynga's brand.

There are significantly more males in this industry with significantly more popularity.

If you really know what you're doing, a custom cache can be significantly more efficient than the general purpose kernel cache, which in turn can make significant impact on performance bottom line.

I was going to offer a tip or two, but who would want them?Incidentally, these self-appointed protectors of Design against the masses appear to me to be significantly more mediocre in this way than some of the other subgroups here.

This delayed G+'s adoption enough that Facebook in particular was able to react, improving both its then-primary web UI, make some privacy improvements, and significantly shore up its public perception.

To other HNers: "And then we didn't pay ourselves salary" strikes me as something I hear from a lot of failed funded startups which magnifies the personal financial risk of doing them significantly without meaningfully increasing the chance you'll pull things through.

Almost the entire piece does nothing but cite facts, such as: the dropping of the nuclear bombs does not figure significantly in historical records of the Japanese leadership's discussion about surrender; the Japanese war council decided on August 8 not even to discuss the Hiroshima bombing; damage to Hiroshima and Nagasaki was not out of scale with the earlier fire-bombings of other cities; Japanese leaders had expressed a willingness to sacrifice their cities if necessary; Japan's war strategy was predicated on the Soviets staying neutral; and so on.