ORDER OF MAGNITUDE as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • a degree in a continuum of size or quantity
   Synonym(s)
   • order (what does order mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • it was on the order of a mile
   • an explosion of a low order of magnitude
   Hypernyms(s) order of magnitude is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • magnitude (what does magnitude mean?)
   Derived(s)
   • rate (what does rate mean?)
   • rank (what does rank mean?)
   • range (what does range mean?)
   • order (what does order mean?)
   • grade (what does grade mean?)
   • place (what does place mean?)
2. 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)
   • magnitude (what does magnitude mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) order of magnitude is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • ratio (what does ratio mean?)