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

• 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。
• 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。
• The extremely crude treatment serves to estimate the order of magnitude of the response.
  精确度很差的处理方法可以用来估计响应的数量级。
• 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？
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。