Associations to the word «Magnitude»

MAGNITUDE, noun. (uncountable) (countable) The absolute or relative size, extent or importance of something.

MAGNITUDE, noun. (countable) An order of magnitude.

MAGNITUDE, noun. (mathematics) A number, assigned to something, such that it may be compared to others numerically

MAGNITUDE, noun. (mathematics) Of a vector, the norm, most commonly, the two-norm.

MAGNITUDE, noun. (astronomy) The apparent brightness of a star (on a negative, logarithmic scale); apparent magnitude

MAGNITUDE, noun. (seismology) A measure of the energy released by an earthquake (e.g. on the Richter scale).

MAGNITUDE, noun. The property of relative size or extent (whether large or small); "they tried to predict the magnitude of the explosion"; "about the magnitude of a small pea".

MAGNITUDE, 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.

MAGNITUDE, noun. Relative importance; "a problem of the first magnitude".