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

• Due to the memory storage technology used in SSDs, the performance is an order of magnitude higher than regular hard disk drives.
  由于SSD中采用了内存存储技术，SSD的性能比常规硬盘驱动器高出了一个数量级。
• In many cases, the price is lower by more than an order of magnitude.
  在很多情况中，价格会低一个数量级以上。
• The country's debt this year will be of the same order of magnitude as it was last year.
  今年这个国家所欠的债务和去年相比在一个数量级上。
• Other witnesses have reported numbers of a similar order of magnitude.
  其他见证者报告的数量级类似。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• It was found that the calculation results and the experimental data had the same order of magnitude.
  使用该方法所得到的动力特性系数的计算结果与测量值量级相同。
• 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。