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Order of magnitude
noun 1.A degree in a continuum of size or quantity. Synonym: order. "An explosion of a low order of magnitude" 2.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. Synonym: magnitude.
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