Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: magnitude
IPA transcription: [m'æɡnət,ud]
Pronunciations of magnitude
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noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: magnitude
    Meaning: 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"
  • Synonyms: order_of_magnitude, magnitude
    Meaning: 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: magnitude
    Meaning: relative importance; "a problem of the first magnitude"
Usage examples
  • Finite or any magnitude holds not any proportion to infinite.
  • We have tampered with a question which has grown in magnitude by each year's delay.
  • The magnitude of the industry and its presence in different localities strengthens its influence with the railroads.
  • After two or three years they begin to diminish in number, magnitude, and activity until they almost or quite disappear.
  • Vesta is bigger than any of the others, being five hundred miles in diameter, and shines like a star of the sixth magnitude.
  • It was very small, only of the eighth magnitude; and he wrote to two astronomers (one of them Bode himself) saying what he had observed.
  • He introduced several fresh terms into these perturbations, but none of them of sufficient magnitude to do more than slightly lessen the unexplained perturbations.
  • The fruit somewhat resembles in magnitude and general appearance one of our citron melons of ordinary size; but, unlike the citron, it has no sectional lines drawn along the outside.
  • "It's impossible!" Nevertheless, in self-defense he began to calculate what it might have cost to carry the account, until the appalling magnitude of the risk shut off the discussion.
  • Three of these stars are usually ranked as of the second magnitude, and two of the third; but to ordinary observation they appear of nearly equal brightness, and present a very striking picture.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Binary star, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Titan (supercomputer), License CC BY-SA 4.0
2. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Namibia, License CC BY-SA 4.0