Magnitude meaning

noun

1. 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”

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

   Synonymsorder of magnitude

3. relative importance

   “a problem of the first magnitude”