order of magnitude
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a degree in a continuum of size or quantity
it was on the order of a mile
Types & categories
- magnitude hypernym
Related & opposite
- grade 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
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
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| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | grade |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | magnitude |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | ratio |