English-Portuguese translations for magnitude

• magnitude
  Números dessa magnitude não perturbaram ninguém. Nobody has got worked up over figures of such magnitude.
  Refiro-o para que tenhamos uma ideia da ordem de magnitude. I say that also for us to have an idea of the order of magnitude.
  Todos os Estados-Membros estão a sentir em pleno a magnitude da crise financeira. All Member States are feeling the full magnitude of the financial crisis.
• grandeza
  Podem, assim, ver que estamos realmente a falar de ordens de grandeza significativas. So you can see we really are talking significant orders of magnitude.
  A margem de vitória foi de uma ordem de grandeza superior a qualquer margem de fraude plausível. The margin of victory was of an order of magnitude greater than any possible margin of fraud.
  Creio também que devíamos deixar claras as verdadeiras ordens de grandeza.I also think that we should clearly establish the real orders of magnitude.

Definition of magnitude

• The absolute or relative size, extent or importance of something
• A number, assigned to something, such that it may be compared to others numerically
• A logarithmic scale of brightness defined so that a difference of 5 magnitudes is a factor of 100
• A measure of the energy released by an earthquake (e.g. on the Richter scale

Related words

• magnitude order
• magnitude of a vector
• order of magnitude
• absolute magnitude
• apparent magnitude
• bolometric magnitude
• star of the first magnitude