Magnitude Meaning

There are 3 meaning(s) for word Magnitude

Meaning 1 : 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 : order of magnitude
Meaning 2 : relative importance

    Example : a problem of the first magnitude

Meaning 3 : the property of relative size or extent (whether large or small)

    Example : they tried to predict the magnitude of the explosion,about the magnitude of a small pea