MAGNITUDE as NOUN

  1. Meaning
    • the property of relative size or extent
    Usage Example(s)
    • they tried to predict the magnitude of the explosion
    Hypernyms(s) magnitude is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower Hyponym(s) Attribute(s) Derived(s)
  2. Meaning
    • relative importance
    Usage Example(s)
    • a problem of the first magnitude
    Hypernyms(s) magnitude is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower Derived(s)
  3. Meaning
    • 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
    Synonym(s) Hypernyms(s) magnitude is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower