Magnitude

['mægnɪtjuːd] or ['mæɡnɪtud]

Definition

(noun.) the property of relative size or extent (whether large or small); 'they tried to predict the magnitude of the explosion'; 'about the magnitude of a small pea'.

(noun.) relative importance; 'a problem of the first magnitude'.

Edited by Fred--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) Extent of dimensions; size; -- applied to things that have length, breath, and thickness.

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

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

(n.) Greatness; grandeur.

(n.) Greatness, in reference to influence or effect; importance; as, an affair of magnitude.

Typed by Chauncey

Synonyms and Synonymous

n. [1]. Size, bulk, volume, extent, dimension, CAPACITY.[2]. Greatness, importance.[3]. (Math.) Quantity.

Typed by Clint

Definition

n. greatness: size: extent: importance.

Checker: Lorrie

Unserious Contents or Definition

n. Size. Magnitude being purely relative nothing is large and nothing small. If everything in the universe were increased in bulk one thousand diameters nothing would be any larger than it was before but if one thing remain unchanged all the others would be larger than they had been. To an understanding familiar with the relativity of magnitude and distance the spaces and masses of the astronomer would be no more impressive than those of the microscopist. For anything we know to the contrary the visible universe may be a small part of an atom with its component ions floating in the life-fluid (luminiferous ether) of some animal. Possibly the wee creatures peopling the corpuscles of our own blood are overcome with the proper emotion when contemplating the unthinkable distance from one of these to another.

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