American English pronunciation
How to pronounce magnitude
IPA transcription: ['mæɡnə,tud]
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Noun
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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”
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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
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relative importance
“a problem of the first magnitude”
Usage examples
- A point is the beginning of magnitude.
- Vivian's trying to fine-tune some parameters to maximize the magnitude.
- Circinus is a faint constellation, with only one star brighter than fourth magnitude.
- Used stamps can be more valuable than unused, sometimes by an order of magnitude.
- Vivian's trying to fine-tune some parameters to maximize the magnitude.
- A point is the beginning of magnitude.
- Knowing the color type and magnitudes lets astronomers determine the distance of a star.
- This version reduces the plate-based position-dependent and magnitude-dependent systematic errors.
- Hence the magnitude response of the comb filter is periodic.
- A point is the beginning of magnitude.