Synonyms:
magnitude
Meaning: 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"
Synonyms:
order_of_magnitude, magnitude
Meaning: 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
Synonyms:
magnitude
Meaning: relative importance; "a problem of the first magnitude"
Usage examples
Finite or any magnitude holds not any proportion to infinite.
We have tampered with a question which has grown in magnitude by each year's delay.
The magnitude of the industry and its presence in different localities strengthens its influence with the railroads.
After two or three years they begin to diminish in number, magnitude, and activity until they almost or quite disappear.
Vesta is bigger than any of the others, being five hundred miles in diameter, and shines like a star of the sixth magnitude.
It was very small, only of the eighth magnitude; and he wrote to two astronomers (one of them Bode himself) saying what he had observed.
He introduced several fresh terms into these perturbations, but none of them of sufficient magnitude to do more than slightly lessen the unexplained perturbations.
The fruit somewhat resembles in magnitude and general appearance one of our citron melons of ordinary size; but, unlike the citron, it has no sectional lines drawn along the outside.
"It's impossible!" Nevertheless, in self-defense he began to calculate what it might have cost to carry the account, until the appalling magnitude of the risk shut off the discussion.
Three of these stars are usually ranked as of the second magnitude, and two of the third; but to ordinary observation they appear of nearly equal brightness, and present a very striking picture.