量系

English translation: order of magnitude

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Chinese term or phrase:量系
English translation:order of magnitude
Entered by: Wilman

01:06 Feb 7, 2008
Chinese to English translations [PRO]
Physics
Chinese term or phrase: 量系
这其中的三个光子同时劈裂成这个三对光子,这样的一种事件发生的机率是非常小的,大概只有十的负三次立方这样一个量系
Wilman
United States
Local time: 01:44
order of magnitude
Explanation:
order of magnitude

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Note added at 9 mins (2008-02-07 01:15:21 GMT)
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量系 could be 量级 or 数量级.
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franksf
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3 +2order of magnitude
franksf
5On a scale of
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5 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +2
order of magnitude


Explanation:
order of magnitude

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Note added at 9 mins (2008-02-07 01:15:21 GMT)
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量系 could be 量级 or 数量级.

franksf
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agree  zhongren (X)
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agree  rushidao
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On a scale of


Explanation:
on a scale of 10 to the...

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Note added at 14 hrs (2008-02-07 15:26:59 GMT)
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thank you for your comment, franksf, but we use 'scale' in this sense daily within our research group, in this context, it's quite straightforward. Perhaps the way we use 'scale' is too much of a spoken language. I appreciate your input.

Lucy Liang
Local time: 01:44
Native speaker of: Native in ChineseChinese

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  franksf: Sorry, but "scale" in physics conventionally refers to a quantity with dimension (not a pure number like the probablity in the text) such as s (time), m (length), g (mass), and so on, not exactly the same as what we say "on a scale of 1-10" in daily life.
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