What is "magnitudes"

Usage examples of "magnitudes".

Some silicates in the collapsed thermal vent near the recovered material also exhibit stratified spongiform structures highly stromatolitic in appearance, the strata two magnitudes finer than that observed in Terran samples.

And Zoya held his hand while they administered several litres of general anaesthetic to him, and performed the operation, and when he came to he had private parts twice two magnitudes smaller than before.

As far as they were concerned it wrecked everything, the way global warming wrecked things on Earth, only two magnitudes worse, as usual.

Everything on Mars is two magnitudes more than it is on Earth - two magnitudes more or less.

And yet his whole life long physics had been getting more and more complicated, with postulated micro-dimensions taken as fact, and symmetries of fairly simple but scarily small strings invoked as explanations even though they were many magnitudes of size smaller than could over be observed - the unobservability was itself mathematically provable.

Still, intuitively he must have known that using geometrical lengths to symbolize the measured magnitudes of forces would yield some valid result.

Now, in the form in which the spatial magnitudes occur, they express something which is directly conceivable.

Everything on Mars is two magnitudes more than it is on Earth—two magnitudes more or less.

My eyelids focused purple contact lenses to six magnitudes while I admired the crenelated ramparts, great turrets dour aeries, and brave pennons fluttering against a background of mountain crag and heavy, blue-black forest.

I hovered at one mile, scanned at sufficient magnitudes to be almost at ground level.

I focused my contacts to as many magnitudes as were necessary for a clear scanning of the valley mouth, and waited.

And then remember that in string theory they were talking about a distance twenty magnitudes smaller still—about objects one thousandth of one billionth of one billionth the size of an atomic nucleus!

These, like dams everywhere these days, were transparent walls, and looked as thin as cellophane, yet were still many magnitudes stronger than necessary to hold the water they held, or so people said.

And then remember that in string theory they were talking about a distance twenty magnitudes smaller still-about objects one thousandth of one billionth of one billionth the size of an atomic nucleus!

This question leads to a quite definite positive answer, and to a perfectly definite transformation law for the space-time magnitudes of an event when changing over from one body of reference to another.