order of magnitude

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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

• In the last 10 years researchers have advanced by roughly an order of magnitude.
  在过去10年中，研究人员大约前进了一个数量级。
• A good framework can reduce the cost of developing an application by an order of magnitude.
  一个好的框架可大大降低应用系统的开发成本。
• 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。
• 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。
• The gravimetric hydrogen production rate exceeds that of other solar-driven thermochemical processes by more than an order of magnitude.
  而分解出氢的效率以重量计算可比其它太阳能热制程的效率高出一个数量级。
• The raw material concentration is one order of magnitude lower than the concentration in the traditional fixed state process.
  原料浓度比传统定态过程低一个数量级。
• 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。
• But it's going to give us the right order of magnitude that states are there that are accessible?
  但是它会给出我们想知道的数量级，有多少可能出现的状态？
• For a commercial software product, the Business Case should include a set of assumptions about the project and the order of magnitude return on investment ( ROI) if those assumptions are true.
  对一个商业软件产品来说，商业案例应该包括一组关于项目和投资收益（ROI）的数量级的假设。
• Customer problem solved: The public cloud environment will let the company handle the workloads that may be as much as an order of magnitude greater than it is used to.
  所解决的客户问题：公有云环境将允许公司处理比之前高达一个数量级的工作负载。