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magnitude

noun
  1. the property of relative size or extent, whether large or small
    “They tried to predict the magnitude of the explosion.”
  2. relative importance
    “a problem of the first magnitude”
    prominence
  3. 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”
    order of magnitude