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Two nested greater-than signs, marking dominance of scale.
Also known as: Much bigger than, Double greater-than, Far greater than
Two stacked greater-than signs say one quantity dwarfs another. Physics and engineering use it constantly to justify dropping a term from an equation, which is the work the symbol actually does.
States that one quantity is very much greater than another, usually by orders of magnitude.
Contexts: Mathematics
Is used to justify neglecting a term in an approximation, which is why it appears more in applied writing than in pure mathematics.
Contexts: Mathematics
Two arrowhead shapes pointing right, set one behind the other and overlapping slightly.