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magnitude

/'mægnɪ,tud/

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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
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order of magnitude

type of:
ratio
noun
relative importance
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"a problem of the first magnitude"

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importance
noun
the property of relative size or extent (whether large or small)
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"they tried to predict the magnitude of the explosion" "about the magnitude of a small pea"

type of:
property

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