Order of Magnitude

Views Updated: Dec 15, 2025

Key Facts

Abbreviation
OM
Pronunciation
/ˈɔrdər əv ˈmægnəˌtud/
Category
Academic & Science
Related Field
Mathematics

Examples in Context

  1. America and Russia do not face a problem of the same order of magnitude as Japan.
  2. The variation will be on the same order of magnitude as the average itself.
  3. The country's debt this year will be of the same order of magnitude as it was last year.
  4. But they give an approximate order of magnitude.
  5. Sorting the derived dataset can easily accelerate the overall operation by an order of magnitude or more.

Other meanings of OM

Oh My Misc
Out of Memory Computing
Open Motorboat Misc
Office Manager Business
Object Model Computing
Operations Manager Business
One Million Misc
Oman Regional
Owners Manual Gov
Old Man Community