An order of magnitude difference between two values is a factor of 10.

The sea is rough.

Although such numbers may not be precise they are generally accepted to be in the correct order of magnitude.

The order was grounded on the rough immoral attitude toward a teacher and infringement of the internal regulations of the Institute, after numerous warnings .

The order of magnitude of a number is, intuitively speaking, the number of powers of 10 contained in the number.

Without a vast, highly coordinated global effort, how could we possibly cope with sea level rises on that order of magnitude?

Control Magnitude

She's a bit rough around the edges.

Despite Sami's rough edges, Layla loves him.

The Russian Federation, on behalf of the Kimberley Process, wishes to reaffirm the commitment to develop and improve the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme for Rough Diamonds, strengthen national certification systems and promote cooperation with the diamond industry in order to prevent the use of rough diamonds in funding conflicts.

An advantage for gnutella is its user population numbers in the millions, whereas the G2 network is approximately an order of magnitude smaller.

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Interestingly, the GIPS cumulative current account deficits from 2008 through 2010 were of roughly the same order of magnitude 365 billion, to be precise.

Two numbers of the same order of magnitude have roughly the same scale the larger value is less than ten times the smaller value.

The magnitude of budget deficits like the magnitude of the downturn has taken many by surprise.

So insects, just for free, contribute to the economy of the United States with about the same order of magnitude, just for free, without everyone knowing.

This means that a first magnitude star ( 1.00) is about 2.5 times brighter than a second magnitude ( 2.00) star, and approximately 100 times brighter than a sixth magnitude star ( 6.00).

For now, only rough, partial or sector specific assessment exists.

Such rapid increases represent a risk that is on the same order of magnitude as many of the damage risks that the policies are supposed to address.

When it was discovered it was magnitude 15.0 it was estimated to have reached maximum magnitude of 13.0 before fading away.

The magnitude of the problem is huge.

They contrived a plot of great magnitude .

His most notable contribution was to note that in the stellar magnitude system introduced by the Greek astronomer Hipparchus, stars of the first magnitude were a hundred times as bright as stars of the sixth magnitude.

Here s a rough (unofficial) overview of some different parts of the agreement.

A Debye sheath arises in a plasma because the electrons usually have a temperature on the order of magnitude or greater than that of the ions and are much lighter.

So, it was a rough it was a rough go, but I fell in love with this process of actually integrating graphics into architecture because I didn't know what I was doing.

The main star is of magnitude 4.33 and spectral type A0p, while the companion is magnitude 5.23 and belongs to spectral class A3m.

Chinese government official sources state a magnitude of 7.8 on the Richter magnitude scale, though some sources listed it as high as 8.2.

And they contrived a plot of great magnitude ,

A central issue for all parties concerned with human settlements is the question of scaling up programmes to the order of magnitude needed to address the growth of slum settlements in cities.

No one could believe the magnitude of the tragedy.

Today, however, collective action is of a different magnitude.

The following day, a magnitude 3.6 earthquake hit California.

If they don t, Europe will largely cease to matter when the going gets rough.

And the going is now getting quite rough in Iran and the Persian Gulf.

WGDE discussed possible solutions for the valuation of rough diamonds extracted from exploration samples.

Likewise, the waste from not fully utilizing society s resources the inevitable consequence of not having had such a quick and strong stimulus exceeds that of the public sector by an order of magnitude.

The normal rough economic calculations apply Who online gets most attention vs. who gives it?

Writers have usually pointed to certain rough edges and apparent flaws in such a definition.

There's NEVER been an earthquake of this magnitude in Haiti.

The following day, a magnitude 5.5 earthquake struck in Livermore.

I ask members to imagine the magnitude of the challenge.

We've just connected the dots. What we need to do is increase our sample size by an order of magnitude or more hundreds of thousands of DNA samples from people all over the world.