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- Dictionarymag·ni·tude/ˈmaɡnəˌto͞od/
noun
- 1. the great size or extent of something: "they may feel discouraged at the magnitude of the task before them" Similar Opposite
- 2. size: "electorates of less than average magnitude" Similar
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magnitude | American Dictionary. noun [ U ] us / ˈmæɡ·nəˌtud / Add to word list. large size or great importance: The magnitude of the task would have discouraged an ordinary man. earth science.
The meaning of MAGNITUDE is great size or extent. How to use magnitude in a sentence.
noun. size; extent; dimensions: to determine the magnitude of an angle. great importance or consequence: affairs of magnitude. greatness of size or amount. moral greatness: magnitude of mind. Astronomy.
the brightness of a star or other celestial body as viewed by the unaided eye and expressed by a mathematical ratio of 2.512: a star of the first magnitude is approximately 2 1 ⁄ 2 times as bright as one of the second magnitude and 100 times brighter than one of the sixth magnitude.
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. synonyms: order of magnitude. see more.
noun. /ˈmæɡnɪtjuːd/ /ˈmæɡnɪtuːd/ [uncountable] (formal) the great size or importance of something; the degree to which something is large or important. We did not realize the magnitude of the problem. a discovery of the first magnitude. see also order of magnitude. Extra Examples. Oxford Collocations Dictionary.
magnitude. noun [ U ] formal uk / ˈmæɡnɪtjuːd / us. Add to word list. the large size or importance of something: People were still unaware of the magnitude of the problem. (Definition of magnitude from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
1. relative importance or significance: a problem of the first magnitude. 2. relative size or extent: the magnitude of the explosion. 3. (Mathematics) maths a number assigned to a quantity, such as weight, and used as a basis of comparison for the measurement of similar quantities.
MAGNITUDE meaning: 1 : the size, extent, or importance of something; 2 : a number that shows the brightness of a star.
In Physics, magnitude is defined as the maximum extent of size and the direction of an object. Magnitude is used as a common factor in vector and scalar quantities. By definition, we know that scalar quantities are those quantities that have magnitude only.