order of magnitude

英 [ˌɔːdər əv ˈmæɡnɪtjuːd]

美 [ˌɔːrdər əv ˈmæɡnɪtuːd]

n.  数量级(量度物理量大小的标准，用以10为底的指数表达)

计算机

牛津词典

noun

• 数量级（量度物理量大小的标准，用以10为底的指数表达）
  a level in a system of ordering things by size or amount, where each level is higher by a factor of ten
  1. The actual measurement is two orders of magnitude (= a hundred times) greater than we expected.
     实际测量结果比我们预料的大两个量级（即一百倍）。
  2. The problem is of the same order of magnitude for all concerned.
     这个问题对有关各方的影响是一样大的。

英英释义

noun

• a degree in a continuum of size or quantity
  1. it was on the order of a mile
  2. an explosion of a low order of magnitude
  Synonym:order
• a number assigned to the ratio of two quantities
  Synonym:magnitude

双语例句

• Most software projects have requirements backlogs that are too big& often by an order of magnitude.
  大多数软件项目都有庞大的需求积压&通常按照数量级进行排列。
• China is an order of magnitude bigger even than Japan.
  中国的数量级甚至高于日本。
• Sorting the derived dataset can easily accelerate the overall operation by an order of magnitude or more.
  对派生的数据集进行排序可以轻松地使整个操作加速一个或几个数量级。
• There is much less index access and no index AND'ing so that the overall performance can be one or two order of magnitude better-depending on predicate selectivity.
  只有相当少的索引访问且没有索引AND'ing，这样整体性能将提高一个或两个数量级&取决于谓词选择。
• At first sight it might be thought that these two effects would be of the same order of magnitude.
  初看起来，可能会认为两个效应的大小属于同一个数量级。
• When auxiliary heaters are turned on the chamber pressure may rise by an order of magnitude or more.
  当辅助加热器接近燃烧室工作时，压强就可能上升一个数量级或更多。
• Potentially catastrophic tsunamis, a study says, making the risk of tsunamis an order of magnitude greater than current global estimates suggest.
  一项研究说，即便是在海地等沿海地区的断层发生一般的地震也可能导致灾难性的海啸，这让海啸的风险比目前的全球估计大了1个数量级。
• The estimate for the building work is of the order of magnitude we were expecting.
  对建造房子所花费用的估计和我们预料的差不多。
• You should aim at improving the current limits by one order of magnitude on paper.
  研究的目标应该在纸上作业把目前的实验极限提升一个数量级。
• So there seems to be a rough agreement on at least the order of magnitude of recent job losses.
  这样看来，至少在最近的失业情况的数量级上，前后两项调查得出了大致相同的结论。