· the property of relative size or extent (whether large or small); "they tried to predict the magnitude of the explosion"; "about the magnitude of a small pea"
Hypernym(s): property
· 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
Synonym(s): order_of_magnitude
Hypernym(s): ratio
· relative importance; "a problem of the first magnitude"
Hypernym(s): importance