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magnitude in WordNet English dictionary
noun- 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
- relative importance
"a problem of the first magnitude"
magnitude
- 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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