What is the meaning of magnitude?

noun

  • The property of relative size or extent (whether large or small. )
    • usage: "they tried to predict the magnitude of the explosion"; "about the magnitude of a small pea"
  • 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.
  • Relative importance.
    • usage: "a problem of the first magnitude"
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
14
 
|15 years ago|1.5k views|share |citing 
APAWordNet. (2010). magnitude. Retrieved September 22, 2026, from http://smartdefine.org/magnitude/definitions/1211576
ChicagoWordNet. 2010. "magnitude" http://smartdefine.org/magnitude/definitions/1211576 (accessed September 22, 2026).
HarvardWordNet 2010, magnitude, Smart Define, viewed 22 September, 2026, <http://smartdefine.org/magnitude/definitions/1211576>.
MLAWordNet. "magnitude" 23 October 2010. Web. 22 September 2026. <http://smartdefine.org/magnitude/definitions/1211576>
{ class="autoclick" }next definition (/)