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Vinony

on the order of

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adv

  1. Approximately.

    “[T]he rough number of mobile phones is on the order of 3 billion.”

    “Still another former NSA whistleblower, the mathematician William Binney, has said that the NSA has "assembled on the order of 20 trillion transactions about US citizens with other US citizens".”

prep

  1. In the manner of; along the lines of; like; of a similar kind to; more-or-less equivalent to.

    “[H]is philanthropy was more on the order of that of Jack Cade than it was Christian.”

    “The earth's interior is somewhat on the order of an elaborate amusement-park tunnel of love.”