order of magnitude

noun phrase

: a range of magnitude extending from some value to ten times that value

Examples of order of magnitude in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web But during a year-long trial run from 2019 to 2020, the prototype’s performance was an order of magnitude better than current space clocks. —

Discover Magazine, 9 July 2024 The relocation and detention involved in the deportation project that Trump is proposing are at least an order of magnitude greater than these debacles. —

Andrea Pitzer, Scientific American, 23 July 2024 With Western help, for example, Kyiv would be able to increase drone production by an order of magnitude and get them onto the battlefield even faster. —

Andriy Zagorodnyuk, Foreign Affairs, 21 May 2024 This set of evidence is more than an order of magnitude larger than previous findings, the study authors write. —

Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 May 2024 See all Example Sentences for order of magnitude

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Word History

First Known Use

1875, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of order of magnitude was in 1875

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