magnitude

Pronunciation: /ˈmæɡnɪtjuːd/

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C1 — Advanced

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun the property of relative size or extent (whether large or small)
  2. noun 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
  3. noun relative importance

Etymology

From Latin magnitūdō (“greatness, size”), magnus + -tūdō.

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Semantic network

Broader (hypernyms)
property
Narrower (hyponyms)
bulk, dimension, size, muchness, extent

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