magnitude

n 1: the property of relative size or extent; "they tried to

predict the magnitude of the explosion"

2: 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 [syn: {order of magnitude}]

3: relative importance: "a problem of the first magnitude"