magnitude
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
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- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
the property of relative size or extent (whether large or small)
they tried to predict the magnitude of the explosion
Types & categories
- property hypernym
- absolute magnitude hyponym
- proportion hyponym
- order of magnitude hyponym
- dimension hyponym
- degree hyponym
- amplitude hyponym
- multiplicity hyponym
- triplicity hyponym
- size hyponym
- size hyponym
- volume hyponym
- muchness hyponym
- intensity hyponym
- amount hyponym
- extent hyponym
Related & opposite
- measurable attribute
- enlarge derivation
- magnify derivation
Sense 2 noun
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
Types & categories
- ratio hypernym
Sense 3 noun
relative importance
a problem of the first magnitude
Types & categories
- importance hypernym
- extensiveness hyponym
Related & opposite
- magnify derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attribute | Related & opposite | measurable |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | enlarge |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | magnify |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | property |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | absolute magnitude |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | proportion |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | order of magnitude |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | dimension |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | degree |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | amplitude |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | multiplicity |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | triplicity |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | size |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | size |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | volume |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | muchness |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | intensity |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | amount |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | extent |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | ratio |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | magnify |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | importance |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | extensiveness |