order of magnitude

Significado (Inglés)

The class of scale or magnitude of any amount, where each class contains values of a fixed ratio (most often 10) to the class preceding it.

Conceptos

magnitud

Sinónimos

magnitude

order

digit

amplitude

magnitude order

greatness

decade

Traducciones

Größenordnung

ordre de grandeur

ordem de grandeza

Tragbalken

Träger

Sparre

Brückenbalken

grandeur

ordre

magnitude

Querbalken

grado

livello

ordine di grandezza

Etimología (Inglés)

18th century, in the sense "magnitude (brightness class) of a star", informed by the Greek τῶν μεγάλων τάξις (tôn megálōn táxis) (Ptolemy).