magnitude
Nouns
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(n) the property of relative size or extent (whether large or small)
- they tried to predict the magnitude of the explosion
- about the magnitude of a small pea
- (n) 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 order of magnitude,
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(n) relative importance
- a problem of the first magnitude