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Definition of Order of magnitude

1. Noun. A degree in a continuum of size or quantity. "An explosion of a low order of magnitude"

2. 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.

Definition of Order of magnitude

1. Noun. The class of scale or magnitude of any amount, where each class contains values of a fixed ratio (most often 10) to the class preceding it. For example, something that is 2 orders of magnitude larger is 100 times larger, something that is 3 orders of magnitude larger is 1000 times larger, and something that is 6 orders of magnitude larger is a million times larger, because $10^2$ = 100, $10^3$ = 1000, and $10^6$ = a million. ¹

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Order Of Magnitude

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Literary usage of Order of magnitude

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"... and he improved Ptolemy's notation by writing 4-3 instead of 0, /i— indicating thereby an order of magnitude brighter than the average of a fourth, ..."

2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"indicating thereby an order of magnitude brighter than the average of a fourth, but inferior to that of a third—and 3'4 for 8, t, and so on. ..."

3. The Metallography of Steel and Cast Iron by Henry Marion Howe (1916)
"The width of the avoided region is of a higher order of magnitude than that of the supposed strong contact region, strengthened by interlocking or ..."

4. The Theory of Sound by John William Strutt Rayleigh (1896)
"It is important to be clear as to the order of magnitude of the various differential tones concerned. If the primary tones, with frequencies represented by ..."

5. Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society by London Mathematical Society (1907)
"... of <j> is greater than in the body of the g-segment and reaches the order of magnitude of fc"a, which in the present case is not higher than l/k\. ..."

6. Elements of the Comparative Anatomy of Vertebrates by Gustav Mann, Walther Löb, Henry William Frederic Lorenz, Robert Wiedersheim, William Newton Parker, Thomas Jeffery Parker, Harry Clary Jones, Sunao Tawara, Leverett White Brownell, Max Julius Louis Le Blanc, Willis Rodney Whitney, John Wesley Brown, Wi (1907)
"Their temperature coefficients of conductivity are all of the same order of magnitude and, indeed, are very nearly equal. The substances in Table II all ..."

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