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magnitude in WordNet English dictionary

noun
  1. the property of relative size or extent (whether large or small)
    "they tried to predict the magnitude of the explosion"; "about the magnitude of a small pea"
    magnitude 
  2. relative importance
    "a problem of the first magnitude"
    magnitude 
  3. 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
    order of magnitude  magnitude 
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