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the property of relative size or extent; "they tried to predict the magnitude of the explosion" relative importance; "a problem of the first 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 |
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