magnitude
Other forms: magnitudes
Earthquakes have great magnitude in that they are powerful. Their power is rated by their level of magnitude, or how much energy they release relative to other earthquakes.
In math, magnitude compares numbers by powers of 10. If your weekly allowance was $10, but your brother's was $100, his allowance would be one order of magnitude higher than yours. If your sister's was $10,000, hers would be three orders of magnitude higher. A difference of that magnitude is just not fair!
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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”types:absolute magnitude(astronomy) the magnitude that a star would have if it were viewed from a distance of 10 parsecs (32.62 light years) from the earthdimensionthe magnitude of something in a particular direction (especially length or width or height)degreethe seriousness of something (e.g., a burn or crime)amplitudegreatness of magnitudemultiplicitythe property of being multipletriplicitythe property of being triplesizethe physical magnitude of something (how big it is)sizea large magnitudemuchnessgreatness of quantity or measure or extentintensity, intensity level, strengththe amount of energy transmitted (as by acoustic or electromagnetic radiation)amountthe relative magnitude of something with reference to a criterionextentthe distance or area or volume over which something extendsradio brightnessthe strength of a radio wave picked up by a radio telescopesignal levelthe amplitude level of the desired signalthreshold levelthe intensity level that is just barely perceptiblefield intensity, field strengththe vector sum of all the forces exerted by an electrical or magnetic field (on a unit mass or unit charge or unit magnetic pole) at a given point in the fieldhalf-intensityhalf the maximum intensitythicknessthe dimension through an object as opposed to its length or widthslenderness, tenuity, thinnessrelatively small dimension through an object as opposed to its length or widthcritical massthe minimum amount (of something) required to start or maintain a venturequantityan adequate or large amountsmallnessthe property of being a relatively small amountmarginan amount beyond the minimum necessaryfigure, numberthe property possessed by a sum or total or indefinite quantity of units or individualscoveragethe extent to which something is coveredfrontagethe extent of land abutting on a street or waterambit, compass, orbit, range, reach, scopean area in which something acts or operates or has power or control: "the range of a supersonic jet"lengththe linear extent in space from one end to the other; the longest dimension of something that is fixed in placelengththe property of being the extent of something from beginning to endheight, tallnessthe vertical dimension of extension; distance from the base of something to the topthird dimensionthe dimension whereby a solid object differs from a two-dimensional drawing of itfourth dimension, timethe fourth coordinate that is required (along with three spatial dimensions) to specify a physical eventtype of:propertya basic or essential attribute shared by all members of a class
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relative importance“a problem of the first magnitude”types:type of:importancethe quality of being important and worthy of note
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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 10synonyms: order of magnitudetype of:ratiothe relative magnitudes of two quantities (usually expressed as a quotient)
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