magnitude relation


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Noun1.magnitude relation - a relation between magnitudes
relation - an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together
scale - relative magnitude; "they entertained on a grand scale"
ratio, proportion - the relation between things (or parts of things) with respect to their comparative quantity, magnitude, or degree; "an inordinate proportion of the book is given over to quotations"; "a dry martini has a large proportion of gin"
ratio - the relative magnitudes of two quantities (usually expressed as a quotient)
rate - a magnitude or frequency relative to a time unit; "they traveled at a rate of 55 miles per hour"; "the rate of change was faster than expected"
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Pakistan's tax to gross domestic product magnitude relation is a smaller amount than 100% that is amongst rock bottom within the world.
In contrast, if one is asked whether B is "bigger than" A, then there remains a temporal reversal of stimuli in the relational statement, but the relation that is reversed is not a temporal relation, but a magnitude relation. In a technical sense, in the case of an arbitrary statement describing a temporal relationship there is a nonarbitrary temporal relation within that arbitrary statement, because if someone hears or reads to themselves the statement then one stimulus precedes the other in time.
Scholz, C.H.: 1968, The frequency magnitude relation of micro-fracturing in rock and its relation to earthquakes.
A frequency magnitude relation shows the number of earthquakes per year.