| Definition of 'order of magnitude' |
Princeton's WordNet |
|
1. (noun) order, order of 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"
2. (noun) order of 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
|
|
|
|
|
| Alternative search options for 'order of magnitude' |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|