order of magnitude, n.
freq. cnt. 5
freq. cnt. 5
a degree in a continuum of size or quantity
<noun.attribute> freq. cnt.: 13 freq. cnt.: 8 freq. cnt.: 5
order order of magnitude
sample sentences
"it was on the order of a mile""an explosion of a low order of magnitude"
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
semantic pointers
hypernym
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
<noun.relation> freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1
magnitude order of magnitude
semantic pointers
hypernym