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order of magnitude

noun

  1. the approximate size of something, esp measured in powers of 10 Also calledorder

    the order of magnitude of the deficit was as expected

    their estimates differ by an order of magnitude

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Voters accepted the deal, and this year, $1.5 billion or more from the two measures — ULA and A — will be flowing in orders of magnitude more than the previous ones.

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The pressure to perform would be greater by several orders of magnitude.

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It is an order of magnitude worse that the Trump administration has imposed these tactics on an entire federal workforce of dedicated career civil servants who actually care about their country.

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Arguably, the similar cascading failures that followed the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003 were many orders of magnitude worse.

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The increase is, as University of Pennsylvania climate scientist Dr. Michael E. Mann told Salon, is “at least an order of magnitude more rapid than any natural change we know of.”

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