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

• 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。
• 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。
• JBind performs a full order of magnitude slower than most of the binding frameworks in these tests.
  相对于这些测试中的大多数绑定框架，JBind的执行速度慢了整整一个数量级。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• In troposcatter transmission it turns out that M is of the order of magnitude of100 to1000.
  在对流层散射通讯中已证明M在100到1000的数量级。
• The variation will be on the same order of magnitude as the average itself.
  变动的值，会和平均值本身有相同的数量级。
• China is an order of magnitude bigger even than Japan.
  中国的数量级甚至高于日本。
• 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。