ORDER OF MAGNITUDE Definition & Meaning

order of magnitude

noun

the approximate size of something, esp measured in powers of 10 Also calledorder
the order of magnitude of the deficit was as expected
their estimates differ by an order of magnitude

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The pressure to perform would be greater by several orders of magnitude.

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It is an order of magnitude worse that the Trump administration has imposed these tactics on an entire federal workforce of dedicated career civil servants who actually care about their country.

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Arguably, the similar cascading failures that followed the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003 were many orders of magnitude worse.

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The increase is, as University of Pennsylvania climate scientist Dr. Michael E. Mann told Salon, is “at least an order of magnitude more rapid than any natural change we know of.”

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But in an update to the study, the authors say they made an error in their calculations and the real levels were “an order of magnitude lower” than the EPA’s thresholds.

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