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English to English noun
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a degree in a continuum of size or quantity |  | Example: it was on the order of a mile
an explosion of a low order of magnitude
source: wordnet30
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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 10 | | source: wordnet30
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