Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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ratio | Yes | No | No | No |
order of magnitude | Yes | No | No | No |
ratio (noun) | order of magnitude (noun) |
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the relation between things (or parts of things) with respect to their comparative quantity, magnitude, or degree | a degree in a continuum of size or quantity |
the relative magnitudes of two quantities (usually expressed as a quotient) | 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 |