by orders of magnitude What does "by orders of magnitude" mean? It is by orders of magnitude the biggest crisis.

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Megumi@Ibaraki

Jul 19, 2020 4:28 PM

In my experience, it is most often used in an inexact, non-scientific sense, to mean "quite a lot."

July 19, 2020

Thank you for the input!

July 20, 2020

To increase or reduce by an order of magnitude; in a decimal system: multiply or divide by ten. It is sometimes used (inaccurately) to mean "a lot". https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/order-of-magnitude https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/order-of-magnitude

July 19, 2020

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