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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• But they give an approximate order of magnitude.
  但它们反映出了大致的数量级。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。