Definition of order of magnitude
English to English noun - 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.
source: WordNet 3.0 - 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
source: WordNet 3.0
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