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order of magnitude in WordNet English dictionary
noun- 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
- a degree in a continuum of size or quantity
"it was on the order of a mile"; "an explosion of a low order of magnitude"
order order of magnitude
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order of magnitude in English Wiktionary
- (noun) The class of scale or magnitude of any amount, where each class contains values of a fixed ratio (most often 10) to the class preceding it.
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