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magnitude in English:

1. size


What's your shoe size?
The size of a man's laundry bill is no criterion of his income.
Mary decreased her waist size by swimming every day.
All this walking is killing the soles of my feet and my toes. I wonder if I have the right size shoes.
The planet Arèmo X3 is almost twice the size of planet Earth, and as you can see on the screen, quite similar to your world.
I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: "The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that's fair." In these words he epitomized the history of the human race.
Firstly, I think that the first time each foreigner is in China, the earliest impression is certainly the size of the country.
Since ski season is almost over, the ski wear that's on sale is all leftovers, so there's nothing that's just my size.
You can't cop out on explaining a price increase of that size by blaming OPEC; that won't wash.
Judging by the size of this footprint, I'd say the perp is about six feet tall.
The author's verbiage produced a document of mammoth size and microscopic import.
He might, however, have seen a wooden peg of a different size or color.
Pages are usually at least 4 KiB (4×1024 bytes) in size, and systems with large virtual address ranges or large amounts of real memory generally use larger page sizes.
The chicks hatched in April have also become 5 months old. Their bodies are about the same size as their parents, about the only difference is that the roosters have smaller crests than their father.

English word "magnitude"(size) occurs in sets:

#2 wejściówka ([nie]formalne)

2. greatness


"I wish I could have seen the greatness of the Roman empire."
Shinichirō Watanabe once considered making an anime about Christopher Columbus, but came to the conclusion that not even anime was expressive enough to properly portray the surreal greatness of Columbus's exploits.

3. the large size or importance of something



4. the large importance of something



5. scale


Step on the scale.
Five tremors in excess of magnitude 5.0 on the Richter scale have shaken Japan just this week, but scientists are warning that the largest expected aftershock has yet to hit.
At the atomic scale we observe quantum mechanical effects that can not be explained by classical mechanics.
Harry Partch invented scads of musical instruments, many tuned to his 43-tone scale.
The power delivered by a one square metre solar panel is approximately one watt. Therefore it is currently difficult to harvest solar energy on a grand scale.
Miguel, the pickup artist, rates women's looks on a scale from one to ten, claiming that he only hits on eights and up.
An earthquake, 8.9 on the Richter scale, hits Japan and causes a massive tsunami.
On a scale of 1 to 10, please rate your proficiency in the following languages.
Their siheyuans were far smaller in scale and simpler in design and decoration, and the hutongs were narrower.
Do you think 'noo good jobs for young people' is a local problem or is it a problem on a national scale?
a set of numbers, amounts, etc., used to measure or compare the level of something. How would you rate his work on a scale of 1 to 5? the relation between the real size of something and its size on a map, model, or diagram
A project’s size or scale is based on a varying set of criteria, the most common of which are duration and cost.