order of magnitude

Questions about order of magnitude

What does order of magnitude mean?

order of magnitude means "a degree in a continuum of size or quantity". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for order of magnitude?

Close synonyms include order, magnitude. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is order of magnitude a common word?

order of magnitude is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.