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noun. Greatness of rank or position.

noun. Greatness in size or extent.

noun. Greatness in significance or influence.

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noun. The brightness of a celestial body on a numerical scale for which brighter objects have smaller values. Differences in magnitude are based on a logarithmic scale that matches the response of the human eye to differences in brightness so that a decrease of one magnitude represents an increase in apparent brightness by a factor of 2.512.

noun. A unit on such a scale of brightness.

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noun. A number assigned to a quantity so that it may be compared with other quantities.

noun. A property that can be described by a real number, such as the volume of a sphere or the length of a vector.

noun. A measure of the amount of energy released by an earthquake, as indicated on the Richter scale.

noun. Greatness; vastness, whether in a physical or a moral sense; grandeur.

noun. Largeness of relation or significance; importance; consequence: as, in affairs of magnitude disdain not to take counsel.

noun. Size, or the property of having size; the extended quantity of a line, surface, or solid; length, area, or volume.

noun. Any kind of continuous quantity which is comparable with extended quantity.

noun. In astronomy, the brightness of a star expressed according to the numerical system used by astronomers for that purpose.

noun. In ancient prosody, the length of a syllable, foot, colon, or meter, expressed in terms of the metrical unit (primary time, semeion, or mora): as, a foot of trisemic magnitude; a colon of icosasemic magnitude.

noun. Extent of dimensions; size; -- applied to things that have length, breadth, and thickness.

noun. That which has one or more of the three dimensions, length, breadth, and thickness.

noun. Anything of which greater or less can be predicated, as time, weight, force, and the like.

noun. Greatness; grandeur.

noun. Greatness, in reference to influence or effect; importance.

noun. See magnitude of a star, below.

noun. Same as magnitude of a star, below.

noun. the rank of a star with respect to brightness. About twenty very bright stars are said to be of first magnitude, the stars of the sixth magnitude being just visible to the naked eye; called also visual magnitude, apparent magnitude, and simply magnitude. Stars observable only in the telescope are classified down to below the twelfth magnitude. The difference in actual brightness between magnitudes is now specified as a factor of 2.512, i.e. the difference in brightness is 100 for stars differing by five magnitudes.

noun. The absolute or relative size, extent or importance of something.

noun. An order of magnitude.

noun. A number, assigned to something, such that it may be compared to others numerically

noun. Of a vector, the norm, most commonly, the two-norm.

noun. The apparent brightness of a star (on a negative, logarithmic scale); apparent magnitude

noun. A measure of the energy released by an earthquake (e.g. on the Richter scale).

noun. the property of relative size or extent (whether large or small)

noun. a number assigned to the ratio of two quantities; two quantities are of the same order of magnitude if one is less than 10 times as large as the other; the number of magnitudes that the quantities differ is specified to within a power of 10

noun. relative importance

"If city officials, movers, and shakers made as few mistakes in magnitude and number as Mr. Weston did in his letter, there'd be a lot less grief in Mudville, and Adams never would have made the team."

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