Magnitudes

What does MAGNITUDES mean?

Magnitudes is a form of MAGNITUDE.

1. noun

   the property of relative size or extent (whether large or small)

   “they tried to predict the magnitude of the explosion”

2. 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

3. noun

   relative importance

   “a problem of the first magnitude”

Definitions from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University.