'magnitude' in a sentence
Learn how to use 'magnitude' with 4 example sentences.
- magnitude noun
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: the property of relative size or extent (whether large or small)
: 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
: relative importance
A massive earthquake of magnitude 8.8 hit the Japanese islands today.
I've never seen a pearl of such magnitude!
He realized the magnitude of his crime.
I hadn't realized the magnitude of the problems.