Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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magnitude | Yes | No | No | No |
absolute magnitude | Yes | No | No | No |
magnitude (noun) | absolute magnitude (noun) |
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the property of relative size or extent (whether large or small) | (astronomy) the magnitude that a star would have if it were viewed from a distance of 10 parsecs (32.62 light years) from the earth |
relative importance | |
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 |