Magnitude : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Magnitude	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
magnitude n 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" 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 Synonym(s): order of magnitude, magnitude relative importance; "a problem of the first magnitude"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Magnitude \Mag"nitude\, n. [L. magnitudo, from magnus great. See {Master}, and cf. {Maxim}.] 1. Extent of dimensions; size; -- applied to things that have length, breath, and thickness. Conceive those particles of bodies to be so disposed amongst themselves, that the intervals of empty spaces between them may be equal in magnitude* to them all. --Sir I. Newton. 2. (Geom.) That which has one or more of the three dimensions, length, breadth, and thickness. 3. Anything of which greater or less can be predicated, as time, weight, force, and the like.