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Order of magnitude

noun

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

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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... pointed out[1] that the numerical results of experiments on gases render it probable that the mean distance of their particles at the ordinary temperature and pressure is a quantity of the same order of magnitude as a millionth of a millimetre, and Sir William Thomson has since[2] shewn, by several independent lines of argument, drawn from phenomena so different in themselves as the electrification of metals by contact, ...

— Five of Maxwell's Papers • James Clerk Maxwell

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... wheat bread? Where does the baker get flour? From the wholesaler's or distributor's warehouse! In fifty pound kraftpaper sacks! How much time had elapsed from milling to wholesaler to baker to baking? The answer has to be in the order of magnitude of weeks. And it might be months. Was the flour stored frozen? Or airtight? Of ...

— How and When to Be Your Own Doctor • Dr. Isabelle A. Moser with Steve Solomon

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