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magnitude

noun /mægnɪtud/ 3 syllables 9 letters Scrabble 13 WWF 17
Definitions
noun

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

noun

relative importance

“a problem of the first magnitude”

noun

the property of relative size or extent (whether large or small)

“they tried to predict the magnitude of the explosion”

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