NOUN
- 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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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
How To Use order of magnitude In A Sentence
- This is one order of magnitude slower than the decay of K in the bacteriorhodopsin photocycle.
- For the number of people that might want homes, there's always an order of magnitude fewer homes available than there are in Midwest, for example. America's Most Expensive ZIP Codes
- They did not obtain orbital velocity (would need a whole order of magnitude increase in thrust to get there). X-51 Waverider Set to Fly This Fall - NASA Watch
- In the infrared, extinction by dust is an order of magnitude smaller than in the visible portion of the spectrum.
- America and Russia do not face a problem of the same order of magnitude as Japan.
- With care, about 12 harmonics may be obtained so that about an order of magnitude of frequency range is available.
- Further dilutions only serve to reduce our chance of finding an arsenic ion by an order of magnitude each time.
- It is resources of this order of magnitude that would make it possible definitely to lay to rest the specter of conflicts over food that are looming on the horizon," he added.
- In the infrared, extinction by dust is an order of magnitude smaller than in the visible portion of the spectrum.
- The country's debt this year will be of the same order of magnitude as it was last year.
