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Magnitude

noun

The property of relative size or extent (whether large or small). "About the magnitude of a small pea"

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. Synonym: order of magnitude.

Relative importance.

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