order of magnitudein a sentence
- We want to increase safety by an order of magnitude.
- She gave me an order of magnitude estimate.
- That's five orders of magnitude longer than the wavelength of visible light.† (source)
- Just a coincidence, but I also read that cyberattacks on the Department of Defense have stepped up an order of magnitude.† (source)
- The ratio of misery to pleasure was greater by an order of magnitude than any other mountain I'd been on; I quickly came to understand that climbing Everest was primarily about enduring pain.† (source)
- Although picking strawberries is orders of magnitude more difficult than cooking hamburgers, both jobs are now filled by people who are generally young, unskilled, and willing to work long hours for low pay.† (source)
- Not only was it orders of magnitude larger, but it was so ornate that it made the other look like so much leather-bound toilet paper.† (source)
- It's another order of magnitude, sir.† (source)
- "We're talking orders of magnitude," Tyler said.† (source)
- But that's orders of magnitude larger than the scale at which you do your work.† (source)
- The damage that we would take without such security is an order of magnitude greater.† (source)
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- Orders of magnitude greater than one of the Constitutions.† (source)
- These high-energy particle accelerators raised the amount of energy available for colliding particles by an order of magnitude, to a level never before achieved by the human race.† (source)
- The answer was that the photograph's information content—its entropy—exceeded the painting's by one or two orders of magnitude.† (source)
- Then we added a converter in the glasses to compress the detected radiation by five orders of magnitude so that seven-centimeter waves are turned into visible red light.† (source)
- And flying those things is an order of magnitude, ten orders of magnitude, easier than flying an untested, not-particularly-well-made-or-designed, experimental anti-grav space fighter.† (source)
- Not by dozens of orders of magnitude.† (source)
- Six orders of magnitude difference, and we have a hard time getting them to have more than five gravities of acceleration.† (source)
- And flying those things is an order of magnitude, ten orders of magnitude, easier than flying an untested, not-particularly-well-made-or-designed, experimental anti-grav space fighter.† (source)
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