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ORDER OF MAGNITUDE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A degree in a continuum of size or quantity
Example:
an explosion of a low order of magnitude
Synonyms:
order; order of magnitude
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("order of magnitude" is a kind of...):
magnitude (the property of relative size or extent (whether large or small))
Sense 2
Meaning:
A number assigned to the ratio of two quantities; two quantities are of the same order of magnitude if one is less than 10 times as large as the other; the number of magnitudes that the quantities differ is specified to within a power of 10
Synonyms:
magnitude; order of magnitude
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("order of magnitude" is a kind of...):
ratio (the relative magnitudes of two quantities (usually expressed as a quotient))
