magnitudes

'magnitudes'

[magnitude.n.01] as in: the property of relative size or extent (whether large or small)

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Examples:
they tried to predict the magnitude of the explosion
about the magnitude of a small pea

'magnitudes'

[order_of_magnitude.n.02] as in: a number assigned to the ratio of two quantities; two quantities are of the same order of magnitude if one is less than 10 times as large as the other; the number of magnitudes that the quantities differ is specified to within a power of 10

'magnitudes'

[magnitude.n.03] as in: relative importance

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Examples:
a problem of the first magnitude