order of magnitude English

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order of magnitude

— noun (= order) 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

— noun (= 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

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