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The class of scale or magnitude of any amount, where each class contains values of a fixed ratio (most often 10) to the class preceding it.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: mathematics, sciences
Examples
- 2011, Enrico Fermi, Wikisource (translator), Concerning a Contradiction between the Electrodynamic and Relativistic Theory of Electromagnetic Mass, 1922, Enrico Fermi, Über einen Widerspruch zwischen der elektrodynamischen und relativistischen Theorie der elektromagnetischen Masse, Physikalische Zeitschrift, v 23, pp 340-344, However, we notice that although this contraction is of order of magnitude v2:c2, it changes the most important terms of electromagnetic mass, i.e, the rest mass.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: OOM
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: order, scale
a degree in a continuum of size or quantity
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- it was on the order of a mile
- an explosion of a low order of magnitude
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: order
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: magnitude
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
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: magnitude
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: ratio
18th century, in the sense "magnitude (brightness class) of a star", informed by the Greek τῶν μεγάλων τάξις (tôn megálōn táxis) (Ptolemy).
Across languages
Translations
24 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Catalan:
ordre de magnitud
— class of scale
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Chinese Mandarin:
數量級 /数量级
(shùliàngjí)
— class of scale
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Dutch:
orde van grootte
— class of scale
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Estonian:
suurusjärk
— class of scale
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Finnish:
suuruusluokka
— class of scale
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Finnish:
kertaluokka
— class of scale
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French:
ordre de grandeur
— class of scale
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German:
Größenordnung
— class of scale
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Hebrew:
סֵדֶר גֹּדֶל
(séder gódel)
— class of scale
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Hungarian:
nagyságrend
— class of scale
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Irish:
ord méadaíochta
— class of scale
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Japanese:
桁
(keta)
— class of scale
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Kazakh:
реттік шама
(rettık şama)
— class of scale
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Korean:
크기 정도
(keugi jeongdo)
— class of scale
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Korean:
크기 자릿수
(keugi jaritsu)
— class of scale
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Norwegian Bokmål:
størrelsesorden
— class of scale
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Polish:
rząd wielkości
— class of scale
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Portuguese:
ordem de grandeza
— class of scale
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Spanish:
orden de magnitud
— class of scale
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Swedish:
storleksordning
— class of scale
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Thai:
อันดับของขนาด
— class of scale
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Turkish:
büyüklük mertebesi
— class of scale
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Ukrainian:
порядок величини
(porjadok velyčyny)
— class of scale
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Vietnamese:
bậc độ lớn
— class of scale
