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. Kunho Lee:

   The supply will be overflowing at that point but it's difficult to pin down the exact order of magnitude, an educated guess is that we are unlikely to be in the market for the rest of the year.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. Southeastern US:

   Modeling scenarios are always approximations, but they're definitely in the right order of magnitude based on what I've seen in previous economic analysis, the most important thing from The Analysis Group study is that the economic impacts are positive, not negative. If passed, the Clean Electricity Payment Program and clean energy tax credits would be the most impactful piece climate legislation in Southeastern US history, and The Analysis Group study shows that it will not be a cost to the economy, it'll be a benefit. That's a no brainer.

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.