Magnitude

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1. Noun

Extent of dimensions; size; -- applied to things that have length, breath, and thickness.

2. Noun

That which has one or more of the three dimensions, length, breadth, and thickness.

3. Noun

Anything of which greater or less can be predicated, as time, weight, force, and the like.

4. Noun

Greatness; grandeur.

5. Noun

Greatness, in reference to influence or effect; importance; as, an affair of magnitude.

6. Noun

How large or important something is.

The size, extent or importance of a quantity, difference or effect. Often useful when interpreting effect size or change.

“The magnitude of the regional difference was greater than expected.”
Often useful when interpreting effect size or change

7. Noun

the property of relative size or extent (whether large or small); "they tried to predict the magnitude of the explosion"; "about the magnitude of a small pea"
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