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To allow public access to orbit, we would need breakthroughs that would lower the cost by a lot more than an order of magnitude and increase safety by a factor of 100 as compared to every launch system used since the first manned space flight. I think airborne launch will be a significant part of the safety solution.
Burt Rutan

Meaning of "order of magnitude" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF ORDER OF MAGNITUDE

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ORDER OF MAGNITUDE

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Order of magnitude is a noun.
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WHAT DOES ORDER OF MAGNITUDE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Order of magnitude

An order of magnitude is a scale of numbers with a fixed ratio, often rounded to the nearest ten. The orders of magnitude are written in powers of 10. For example, the order of magnitude of 1500 is 3, since 1500 may be written as 1.5 × 103. Differences in order of magnitude can be measured on the logarithmic scale in "decades". Examples of numbers of different magnitudes can be found at Orders of magnitude. We say two numbers have the same order of magnitude of a number if the big one divided by the little one is less than 10. For example, 23 and 82 have the same order of magnitude, but 23 and 820 do not." — John Baez...

Definition of order of magnitude in the English dictionary

The definition of order of magnitude in the dictionary is the approximate size of something, esp measured in powers of 10.

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Synonyms and antonyms of order of magnitude in the English dictionary of synonyms

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The translations of order of magnitude from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «order of magnitude» in English.

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量级
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Translator English - Spanish

orden de magnitud
570 millions of speakers

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order of magnitude
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

परिमाण के आदेश
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ar

Translator English - Arabic

أمر من حجم
280 millions of speakers

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порядок
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ordem de grandeza
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মাত্রা
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ordre de grandeur
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Urutan magnitud
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Größenordnung
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Translator English - Korean

크기의 순서
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Translator English - Javanese

Urutan magnitudo
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thứ tự cường độ
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அளவுகோல்
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विशालतेचा क्रम
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büyüklük sırası
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

ordine di grandezza
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rząd wielkości
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Translator English - Ukrainian

порядок
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Translator English - Romanian

ordin de mărime
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τάξη μεγέθους
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Translator English - Afrikaans

orde van grootte
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storleksordning
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størrelsesorden
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about order of magnitude

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3 QUOTES WITH «ORDER OF MAGNITUDE»

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Simon van der Meer
Since then, I have worked with the group that commissioned and improved the ring and that is now preparing the construction of a second ring to increase the p stacking rate by an order of magnitude.
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Wilhelm Ostwald
For, with pure water the inversion of cane sugar scarcely proceeds and subsequently it required very thorough, difficult studies before this effect and its order of magnitude were established.
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Burt Rutan
To allow public access to orbit, we would need breakthroughs that would lower the cost by a lot more than an order of magnitude and increase safety by a factor of 100 as compared to every launch system used since the first manned space flight. I think airborne launch will be a significant part of the safety solution.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ORDER OF MAGNITUDE»

Discover the use of order of magnitude in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to order of magnitude and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Hatch's Order of Magnitude
The pages of this book contain the answers to mysteries of our modern world - the manliest beverage, the entire spectrum of chaos and order, the epitome of villain hubris.
Michael Hatch, 2012
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Dimensional Analysis: With Case Studies in Mechanics
In estimating the order of magnitude of each term in the equation of conservation of mass, the order of magnitude of ouÃoxà = 1, so the order of magnitude of ldovÃoyÃ=1. Thus, to make the order of magnitude of yà equal 1, the order of ...
Qing-Ming Tan, 2011
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New Living Science PHYSICS for CLASS 9 With More Numerical ...
Estimation by order of magnitude is the device to measure distances, masses and times of wide varying range. In estimation, we do rough calculations or comparisons of a physical quantity. A number rounded to the nearest power of 10 is ...
Dhiren M Doshi
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Physics
The order of magnitude of a number is the power often closest to that number. EXAMPLES. i. The number 7 is closer to 101 (10) than to 10° (1), so we say its order of magnitude is 101. Similarly, 85 is closer to 102 (100) than to 101 (10), so its ...
Neville G. Warren, 2004
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Nonstandard Analysis in Practice
of magnitude to the appreciable one can be explained by properties similar to the following one: — When you pass from one order of magnitude to another using a certain number of very small stages, then the number of stages is "very large", ...
Francine Diener, Marc Diener, 1995
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Foundation: Matter the Body Itself
Determine the natural numbers which are candidate numbers, that is, the numbers in each order of magnitude which satisfy the minimum condition necessary to be potentially the sought-for numbers, by finding those numbers in each order of ...
D. G. Leahy, 1996
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Machine Ethics
We model quantity sensitivity by using Dague's (1993a, 1993b) qualitative Relative Order of Magnitude (ROM[R]) formalism. Order of magnitude reasoning is a form of commonsense reasoning. It provides the kind of stratification that seems ...
Michael Anderson, Susan Leigh Anderson, 2011
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ESSENTIALS OF PHYSICS
1.10.1 Order of Magnitude At times, it is useful to indicate the order of magnitude of a quantity instead of its precise value. The order of magnitude is defined as the power of 10 closest to the number. In the case of a number, expressed in its ...
SANJAY MORESHWAR WAGH, DILIP ABASAHEB DESHPANDE, 2012
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Fundamentals in Chemical Physics
An estimation among electronic, vibrational and rotational contiguous energy levels may be obtained as follows: Let us first note that, from the result 4.79, the order of magnitude of the electronic contribution, Ee, to the molecular energy is given ...
F. Battaglia, T.F. George, 1998
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Theoretical Methods in the Physical Sciences: An ...
A good first step in any calculation is to make an order-of-magnitude estimate of the answer. Such calculations are also known as "back-of-the- envelope" calculations because they can usually be done rapidly in an informal setting and require ...
William Baylis, 1994

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ORDER OF MAGNITUDE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term order of magnitude is used in the context of the following news items.
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Jet.com CEO: We Are the Costco of Internet Retail
... we need to raise and the value of the asset we can create with that money -- it's [an] order of magnitude… a big return for investors,” he said. «Fox Business, Jul 15»
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Self-checkout psychology: Don't scare away shoppers
The cost to the store of falsely accusing one legitimate shopper of shoplifting is an order of magnitude worse than letting one would-be ... «Computerworld, Jul 15»
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In Our Opinion: Spotlight on Cooperstown is well-deserved
... sports world shines brightly on Cooperstown, when the village's population of less than 2,000 mushrooms by an order of magnitude or more. «Oneonta Daily Star, Jul 15»
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Bill Of Rights Proposed For People With Disabilities
“Some individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities are able to participate in a very high order of magnitude and others may not be ... «90.5 WESA, Jul 15»
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Ukraine debt crisis: why it could be the next Greece
That's in a similar order of magnitude to the decline experienced by Greece since the start of its financial crisis, but in about half the timeframe. «The Week UK, Jul 15»
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Weatherford Cuts 1000 More, Mostly in U.S., Following Crushing …
"This isn't inevitable, it wasn't the case historically and isn't desirable. Land, of course, was order of magnitude weaker than the Gulf of Mexico.". «Natural Gas Intelligence, Jul 15»
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ISACS16 poster prize winner: Oliver Thorn-Seshold
since the ON state is more than 250 times more toxic than the OFF state: this is about an order of magnitude more powerful than any switchable ... «Royal Society of Chemistry, Jul 15»
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Radcom: Still An Owner, Still Bullish
Given management is talking about a different scale of opportunities in the release, I would guess the order of magnitude would be in the $10 ... «Seeking Alpha, Jul 15»
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Chris Dempsey of No Boston Olympics 2024 joins the show 7-24-15
And you need to have literally the largest car reached that he blew it all just an order of magnitude here. What they're looking at where is more ... «WEEI.com, Jul 15»
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Co-occurring Synechococcus ecotypes occupy four major oceanic …
... 2013) and their larger cell size means they can fix an order of magnitude more carbon than Prochlorococcus cells (Jardillier et al., 2010). «Nature.com, Jul 15»

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