magnitude
英['mægnɪtjuːd]
美['mæɡnɪtud]
英英释意
- 1. the property of relative size or extent;
- "they tried to predict the magnitude of the explosion"
- 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
- 3. relative importance;
- "a problem of the first magnitude"