order of magnitude
English
Noun
order of magnitude (plural orders of magnitude)
- The class of scale or magnitude of any amount, where each class contains values of a fixed ratio (most often 10) to the class preceding it. For example, something that is 2 orders of magnitude larger is 100 times larger, something that is 3 orders of magnitude larger is 1000 times larger, and something that is 6 orders of magnitude larger is a million times larger, because
= 100, 
= 1000, and 
= a million.
- 2011, Enrico Fermi, Wikisource (translator), Concerning a Contradiction between the Electrodynamic and Relativistic Theory of Electromagnetic Mass, 1922, Enrico Fermi, Über einen Widerspruch zwischen der elektrodynamischen und relativistischen Theorie der elektromagnetischen Masse, Physikalische Zeitschrift, v 23, pp 340-344,
- However, we notice that although this contraction is of order of magnitude
, it changes the most important terms of electromagnetic mass, i.e, the rest mass.
- However, we notice that although this contraction is of order of magnitude
- 2011, Enrico Fermi, Wikisource (translator), Concerning a Contradiction between the Electrodynamic and Relativistic Theory of Electromagnetic Mass, 1922, Enrico Fermi, Über einen Widerspruch zwischen der elektrodynamischen und relativistischen Theorie der elektromagnetischen Masse, Physikalische Zeitschrift, v 23, pp 340-344,
= 100, 
= 1000, and 
= a million.
, it changes the most important terms of electromagnetic mass, i.e, the rest mass.Translations
class of scale
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See also
- dex
- ballpark figure (colloquial)