Order of magnitude
WordNet

noun


(1)   A degree in a continuum of size or quantity
"It was on the order of a mile"
"An explosion of a low order of magnitude"
(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
 
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