Synonyms for order of magnitude
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1. order, order of magnitudenoun

   a degree in a continuum of size or quantity

   "it was on the order of a mile"; "an explosion of a low order of magnitude"

   Synonyms:
   society, social club, rescript, edict, gild, club, parliamentary law, ordination, magnitude, ordering, purchase order, parliamentary procedure, fiat, guild, rules of order, orderliness, order, lodge, decree, monastic order

2. order of magnitude, magnitudenoun

   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

   Synonyms:
   magnitude, order

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1. Charles Krauthammer:

   Who ordered the duck is the big question which you would expect to hear at a dinner party, but not at the center of a national campaign, i was far more offended by the Veritas tape that showed the planning for the violence and then blamed it on Trump, he added. I think that's at a high order of magnitude.

2. Christopher Conselice:

   Those are all big things that could change the answer by an order of magnitude.

3. John Hannah:

   While elements of the Iraqi Army have gradually been able to evict ISIS from Iraq's smaller towns and cities, the challenge of liberating Mosul was of a whole different order of magnitude, it’s a vast metropolis that had millions of inhabitants, enormous sectarian and ethnic complexity, and was the historical bastion of Sunni [ Muslim ] revanchism in Iraq. The fight was always going to be toughest in Mosul, which is why it was left for last.

4. Gretchen Bergstresser:

   We expect ongoing volatility for the balance of this year, and probably continuing in 2017, based on fund flows, increases in default rates and ongoing global events whether from China or elsewhere, loans will see ups and downs, but not to the same order of magnitude at all as the high-yield bond market.

5. Thomas Crowther:

   They store huge amounts of carbon, are essential for the cycling of nutrients, for water and air quality, and for countless human services, yet you ask people to estimate, within an order of magnitude, how many trees there are and they don't know where to begin. I don't know what I would have guessed, but I was certainly surprised to find that we were talking about trillions.