Definition of magnitude in English:

magnitude

noun ˈmaɡnɪtjuːdˈmæɡnəˌt(j)ud

mass noun

1The great size or extent of something.
they may feel discouraged at the magnitude of the task before them
Example sentencesExamples
- The magnitude of the task was overwhelming, the costs intimidating, yet even if had they been grasped there was not the talent within government to deliver.
- It would be a security engineering task of unbelievable magnitude, and I don't think we have a prayer of getting it right.
- She observed that organising a tournament of such magnitude was a mammoth task and urged Lilayi Polo Club to use the sponsorship wisely to further develop the sport.
- His cell is larger than the others, owing to the sheer magnitude of his size, and it's a single.
- Will a park of this massive magnitude get off the ground?
- The size and magnitude of the room overwhelmed Enela.
- A creature of this magnitude would need immense open spaces.
- We understand that not all bills are subject to consideration by this council, but given the substance and magnitude of this legislation, we feel it is an appropriate and necessary step.
- The size and magnitude of the attendance alone is mind-boggling.
- We were enthusiastic about making our practice more evidence based but initially daunted by the potential magnitude of the task.
- Proposing the means by which this group psychopathology can be overcome is a task of magnitude beyond the scope of this work.
- It's also important to grasp the magnitude of the challenge they're undertaking.
- That Newmont is planning a school teaching the basic thee Rs, not to kids, but to adults keen to get a job, is a measure of the task's magnitude.
- Reports about the 7.9 earthquake remain sketchy, but an earthquake of that magnitude can do massive damage.
- One would have thought that a story of this magnitude would warrant extensive media coverage but no, the silence is deafening.
- The technical magnitude of such a task is compounded by the need to ensure the accuracy and authority of Internet-based resources.
- Unable to state how much would be required, he said a tournament of such magnitude called for substantial resources and his association was appealing for assistance to make the tournament a success.
- It certainly took everyone by surprise in terms of the scope and magnitude of the devastation.
- And so when an officer or his crew makes a mistake of this magnitude or proportion, the end state is the same.
- Do we know how - what the extent of the magnitude of this disaster is yet, or are we still finding things out?
Synonyms
immensity, vastness, hugeness, enormity, enormousness, expanse
size, extent, greatness, largeness, bigness
1. 1.1 Great importance.
  events of tragic magnitude
  Example sentencesExamples
  The catastrophe of the Late Devonian was roughly equivalent in magnitude to the event at the end of the Cretaceous that killed the dinosaurs.
  They came to Everett Mall to face the overwhelming pressure, cutthroat competition and public humiliation only an event of this magnitude can provide.
  New York has never witnessed an event of this magnitude, as the 22nd
  An event of this magnitude could perhaps one day bring recognition to ‘true’ heroes and heroines in society.
  The first danger lies in the unknowables - unpredictable events of such magnitude that they swamp the variables that economists are comfortable dealing with.
  And, despite the unfathomable magnitude of the events of that morning, life has, for all intents and purposes, returned to normal for most of us.
  The media is speculating about our financial returns, but the promotional value of telecasting an event of such magnitude is immense.
  The magnitude of such events being celebrated at this venue by the district administration becomes high with the participation of numerous schools and colleges.
  He said it was important to emphasise that the November 14 flooding was ‘an event of extraordinary magnitude.’
  A big thank you also to the sponsors of the various races without whose support and sponsorship it would not have been possible to host an event of this magnitude.
  For comparative historical analysis, this should be a revolution of the same magnitude as the Hubble space telescope was in astronomy.
  A world event of this magnitude has been sadly absent from these shores since football's World Cup of 1966 and remember how brilliant that was.
  When the inevitable occurs, and he dies as a result of his fragile constitution, the event is of such magnitude that the narrator is overwhelmed by grief and despair.
  Organizers wish to express their enormous appreciation to community and corporate sponsors without which an event of this magnitude could not happen.
  The minister said events of such magnitude had a positive impact on a country's economy as they boosted the tourism sector and also helped in upgrading of infrastructure.
  Now, I believe that an event of this magnitude doesn't just deserve attention - it deserves some special attention.
  One, they were coming in relatively small numbers for a news event of this magnitude…
  In time he'll come to appreciate the Beatles' artistry and realize the historic magnitude of the events he's covering.
  Does an event of this magnitude necessarily have momentous causes stretching far back in French history?
  The fullest consequences and magnitude of this shift are yet to be adequately noticed.
  Synonyms
  importance, import, significance, weight, moment, consequence, mark, notability, note, greatness, distinction, eminence, fame, renown, intensity, power
2Size.
electorates of less than average magnitude
Example sentencesExamples
- The degree and magnitude of the health risks involved in cell phone usage have yet to be determined in a comprehensive manner.
- The position of a mobile pointer on a calibrated scale carries information about the magnitude of the quantity being measured.
- With the thermodynamic value of total power, we can then estimate the average magnitude of tectonic stress.
- Given the magnitude of these numbers, a substantial volume of recruitment would be expected for direct care-givers such as nursing aides.
- If the average business tried to pass on price increases of this magnitude to their customers they would quickly find themselves going out of business.
- That is to say, the average American income is of quite some magnitude above the average New Zealand income.
- This correlation may have been increased when few extreme animals per family were selected, because the average magnitude of residual effects was likely increased.
- It is not the mean river flow that determines the yield from a dam on a river, but the duration and magnitude of sequences of below average flows.
- No rigorous studies have evaluated the frequency or magnitude of effects of such substances on blood pressure.
- This underrepresentation is of the same magnitude as the average for genes in the human genome.
- A reduction of that magnitude represents a significant potential savings - a savings greater than many facility executives realize.
- In addition, its average magnitude also decreased slightly.
- Asset deflation of this magnitude for the average American is thus very painful.
- More generally, estimates of the average magnitude of epistasis per mutation pair are difficult to extract from designs of this type.
- Grasses, for example, produce an insulative thatch that reduces the average temperature and the magnitude of temperature fluctuations in surface mineral soils.
- It steadily increased in size until it reached its full magnitude in 1885 as an ugly but substantial shelf-like structure.
- In regard to the immense territory of the United States, magnitude is best conveyed by considering the variety of the society settled on it, as various as that of Europe.
- The remaining mitochondrial data support similar divergence time estimates, with differences increasing in magnitude as average calibration age increases.
- The magnitude of all species activity at the still water site on Brier Island was one-third the average magnitude of activity at still water sites at Kejimkujik National Park.
- Although some realignments took place, both their frequency and magnitude were substantially lower than in the previous phase.
Synonyms
size, extent, measure, proportions, dimensions, breadth, volume, weight, quantity, mass, bulk
amplitude, capacity, strength, degree, gauge, measurement, extension
1. 2.1count noun A numerical quantity or value.
  the magnitudes of all the economic variables could be determined
  Example sentencesExamples
  Compare your estimated magnitudes with those of the rest of the class.
  In contrast, the electric field is a vector quantity (meaning it has both a magnitude and a direction).
  The level of the moral and psychological state is calculated as an arithmetic mean value of the magnitudes of the corresponding indicators with account taken of their weight coefficients.
  One interpretation has it that Plato took numbers to be ratios of geometric magnitudes.
  He proposed the use of a graph for plotting a variable magnitude whose value depends on another variable.
  The problem with visual interpretation of the results is that it is not possible to reliably intuit the quantitative magnitudes of the various contributions and thus the balance of terms which gives rise to the net entropy changes.
  Some of the magnitudes of physics are speed, force, and time.
  It is useful to be able to provide verbal labels for likelihood ratios of various magnitudes.
  The factor of safety for any stem in the canopy of even a large tree can be quantified provided that the magnitudes of stem working and breaking stresses are known.
  Together, these simulations suggest that selection is required to explain the overall reduction in hybrid indices, with varying magnitudes of selection being necessary to explain the dissimilarity among the four replicates.
  The three dimensions to an economic analysis using present value are assessing the magnitudes of the relevant cost or benefit flows, determining the period over which these flows will occur, and selecting the appropriate discount rate.
  The magnitudes of the coefficients associated with buddy status and teammate aggressiveness were lower in this model than in the concurrent model.
  These magnitudes are approximations and should in no way be considered as standard magnitude values.
  Determining meaningful qualitative values for the magnitudes of quantities is a difficult task when building qualitative models about populations.
  Given the range of possibilities, it is fortunate that we can make a few statements about the relative magnitudes of the biometric quantities without an explicit model of mutational effects.
  Numbers that denote the magnitudes of sets are called cardinal numbers.
  There is, however, an unexplained discrepancy between the magnitudes of the diffusion coefficients obtained from the two techniques.
  The magnitude of these correlations indicates that the constructs of supportiveness and social toy play are related to each other but are not the same thing.
  Also, preliminary inspection showed no negative error variances and no theory-contradicting signs or magnitudes in the estimate values.
  Test scores, presented as unadjusted means and standard deviations for the major groups tested, show the magnitudes of the mean numerical scores.
  Synonyms
  value, index, indicator, measure, norm, order, quantity, number, vector, figure
3The degree of brightness of a star, as represented by a number on a logarithmic scale.
count noun the brightest stars have the lowest magnitudes
Example sentencesExamples
- The difference between photographic and visual magnitudes was a convenient measure of a star's color.
- Although it swings back toward the Sun after the 15th, it remains visible until nearly the end of the month as it brightens to magnitude - 0.7.
- Use the visual magnitudes and distances you found earlier to find the absolute magnitudes of these stars.
- He classified the stars into 6 magnitudes where 1 is the brightest and 6 is the faintest visible to the naked eye.
- By using a list of stars of known magnitudes it is possible to determine the magnitude of the faintest visible stars on any particular night.
- It appears as a very bright yellowish-white ‘star’ shining at magnitude 0.1 at midmonth.
- These resulted in his Photometric Researches, the first modern compilation of star magnitudes and among the first works to suggest a disk shape for the Milky Way galaxy.
- The brightness increases as magnitude lowers.
- We would appear as a brilliant bluish-white star of magnitude - 2.3, apparently hovering not too far from Venus.
- Just off-center was a yellow star of a brighter magnitude than the others around it.
- Astronomers measure the brightness of stars in units called magnitudes but this is not a unit like a meter or a kilogramme.
- The lights were all of a greater relative magnitude than Sirius - perhaps equaling or greater than Venus in brightness.
- He carried out a large survey of stellar magnitudes while at the Göttingen Observatory, publishing Aktinometrie (the first part in 1910, the second in 1912).
- Mars now appears as a moderately bright yellowish-orange star of magnitude + 1.2.
- The main work was to photograph the Southern skies (repeatedly in interesting areas) with various instruments and thereby to derive the positions, magnitudes and spectra of stars and other objects.
- The aura's brightness increased in magnitude.
- The brightness classes are now known as apparent magnitudes, and are denoted by a lowercase m.
- It shines as bright as it ever does, at magnitude - 0.5; only two stars, Sirius and Canopus, are brighter.
- At midmonth the ringed planet appears as a bright yellow-white ‘star’ shining at magnitude 0.3.
- Early projections suggest that it might become as bright as magnitude 0.3, but this is uncertain.
Synonyms
brightness, brilliance, radiance, luminosity
absolute magnitude, apparent magnitude
1. 3.1count noun The class into which a star falls by virtue of its brightness.
  a star of the fifth magnitude
  Example sentencesExamples
  Hubble can detect objects as faint as thirty-first magnitude, which is comparable to the sensitivity of much larger Earth-based telescopes.
  Labrum, though only 4th magnitude, is the brightest.
  Neither fish is brightly illuminated, with only three of the constellation stars appearing slightly brighter than 4th magnitude.
  Cancer is a constellation with few stars, none brighter than 4th magnitude.
  Let us admit that Cygni, Tauri, and others, are stars of the second magnitude, such as are here to be considered.
2. 3.2count noun A difference of one on a scale of brightness, treated as a unit of measurement.
  a range of a tenth of a magnitude
  Example sentencesExamples
  Mercury will be positioned above and to the right of Saturn on the evening of May 6 and will appear nearly one full magnitude brighter.

Origin

Late Middle English (also in the sense 'greatness of character'): from Latin magnitudo, from magnus 'great'.

Definition of magnitude in US English:

magnitude

nounˈmæɡnəˌt(j)udˈmaɡnəˌt(y)o͞od

1The great size or extent of something.
they may feel discouraged at the magnitude of the task before them
Example sentencesExamples
- That Newmont is planning a school teaching the basic thee Rs, not to kids, but to adults keen to get a job, is a measure of the task's magnitude.
- Proposing the means by which this group psychopathology can be overcome is a task of magnitude beyond the scope of this work.
- And so when an officer or his crew makes a mistake of this magnitude or proportion, the end state is the same.
- The size and magnitude of the room overwhelmed Enela.
- Will a park of this massive magnitude get off the ground?
- The magnitude of the task was overwhelming, the costs intimidating, yet even if had they been grasped there was not the talent within government to deliver.
- It certainly took everyone by surprise in terms of the scope and magnitude of the devastation.
- The size and magnitude of the attendance alone is mind-boggling.
- The technical magnitude of such a task is compounded by the need to ensure the accuracy and authority of Internet-based resources.
- It would be a security engineering task of unbelievable magnitude, and I don't think we have a prayer of getting it right.
- Unable to state how much would be required, he said a tournament of such magnitude called for substantial resources and his association was appealing for assistance to make the tournament a success.
- We understand that not all bills are subject to consideration by this council, but given the substance and magnitude of this legislation, we feel it is an appropriate and necessary step.
- Do we know how - what the extent of the magnitude of this disaster is yet, or are we still finding things out?
- His cell is larger than the others, owing to the sheer magnitude of his size, and it's a single.
- Reports about the 7.9 earthquake remain sketchy, but an earthquake of that magnitude can do massive damage.
- It's also important to grasp the magnitude of the challenge they're undertaking.
- We were enthusiastic about making our practice more evidence based but initially daunted by the potential magnitude of the task.
- One would have thought that a story of this magnitude would warrant extensive media coverage but no, the silence is deafening.
- She observed that organising a tournament of such magnitude was a mammoth task and urged Lilayi Polo Club to use the sponsorship wisely to further develop the sport.
- A creature of this magnitude would need immense open spaces.
Synonyms
immensity, vastness, hugeness, enormity, enormousness, expanse
1. 1.1 Great importance.
  events of tragic magnitude
  Example sentencesExamples
  They came to Everett Mall to face the overwhelming pressure, cutthroat competition and public humiliation only an event of this magnitude can provide.
  When the inevitable occurs, and he dies as a result of his fragile constitution, the event is of such magnitude that the narrator is overwhelmed by grief and despair.
  For comparative historical analysis, this should be a revolution of the same magnitude as the Hubble space telescope was in astronomy.
  New York has never witnessed an event of this magnitude, as the 22nd
  The fullest consequences and magnitude of this shift are yet to be adequately noticed.
  A big thank you also to the sponsors of the various races without whose support and sponsorship it would not have been possible to host an event of this magnitude.
  One, they were coming in relatively small numbers for a news event of this magnitude…
  The catastrophe of the Late Devonian was roughly equivalent in magnitude to the event at the end of the Cretaceous that killed the dinosaurs.
  The magnitude of such events being celebrated at this venue by the district administration becomes high with the participation of numerous schools and colleges.
  In time he'll come to appreciate the Beatles' artistry and realize the historic magnitude of the events he's covering.
  The media is speculating about our financial returns, but the promotional value of telecasting an event of such magnitude is immense.
  Does an event of this magnitude necessarily have momentous causes stretching far back in French history?
  Organizers wish to express their enormous appreciation to community and corporate sponsors without which an event of this magnitude could not happen.
  Now, I believe that an event of this magnitude doesn't just deserve attention - it deserves some special attention.
  An event of this magnitude could perhaps one day bring recognition to ‘true’ heroes and heroines in society.
  He said it was important to emphasise that the November 14 flooding was ‘an event of extraordinary magnitude.’
  And, despite the unfathomable magnitude of the events of that morning, life has, for all intents and purposes, returned to normal for most of us.
  The first danger lies in the unknowables - unpredictable events of such magnitude that they swamp the variables that economists are comfortable dealing with.
  The minister said events of such magnitude had a positive impact on a country's economy as they boosted the tourism sector and also helped in upgrading of infrastructure.
  A world event of this magnitude has been sadly absent from these shores since football's World Cup of 1966 and remember how brilliant that was.
  Synonyms
  importance, import, significance, weight, moment, consequence, mark, notability, note, greatness, distinction, eminence, fame, renown, intensity, power
2Size.
electorates of less than average magnitude
Example sentencesExamples
- Given the magnitude of these numbers, a substantial volume of recruitment would be expected for direct care-givers such as nursing aides.
- If the average business tried to pass on price increases of this magnitude to their customers they would quickly find themselves going out of business.
- No rigorous studies have evaluated the frequency or magnitude of effects of such substances on blood pressure.
- The degree and magnitude of the health risks involved in cell phone usage have yet to be determined in a comprehensive manner.
- Grasses, for example, produce an insulative thatch that reduces the average temperature and the magnitude of temperature fluctuations in surface mineral soils.
- The position of a mobile pointer on a calibrated scale carries information about the magnitude of the quantity being measured.
- This correlation may have been increased when few extreme animals per family were selected, because the average magnitude of residual effects was likely increased.
- That is to say, the average American income is of quite some magnitude above the average New Zealand income.
- In regard to the immense territory of the United States, magnitude is best conveyed by considering the variety of the society settled on it, as various as that of Europe.
- A reduction of that magnitude represents a significant potential savings - a savings greater than many facility executives realize.
- The remaining mitochondrial data support similar divergence time estimates, with differences increasing in magnitude as average calibration age increases.
- More generally, estimates of the average magnitude of epistasis per mutation pair are difficult to extract from designs of this type.
- In addition, its average magnitude also decreased slightly.
- It steadily increased in size until it reached its full magnitude in 1885 as an ugly but substantial shelf-like structure.
- This underrepresentation is of the same magnitude as the average for genes in the human genome.
- Asset deflation of this magnitude for the average American is thus very painful.
- With the thermodynamic value of total power, we can then estimate the average magnitude of tectonic stress.
- Although some realignments took place, both their frequency and magnitude were substantially lower than in the previous phase.
- The magnitude of all species activity at the still water site on Brier Island was one-third the average magnitude of activity at still water sites at Kejimkujik National Park.
- It is not the mean river flow that determines the yield from a dam on a river, but the duration and magnitude of sequences of below average flows.
Synonyms
size, extent, measure, proportions, dimensions, breadth, volume, weight, quantity, mass, bulk
1. 2.1 A numerical quantity or value.
  the magnitudes of all the economic variables could be determined
  Example sentencesExamples
  Determining meaningful qualitative values for the magnitudes of quantities is a difficult task when building qualitative models about populations.
  There is, however, an unexplained discrepancy between the magnitudes of the diffusion coefficients obtained from the two techniques.
  The problem with visual interpretation of the results is that it is not possible to reliably intuit the quantitative magnitudes of the various contributions and thus the balance of terms which gives rise to the net entropy changes.
  The magnitudes of the coefficients associated with buddy status and teammate aggressiveness were lower in this model than in the concurrent model.
  The three dimensions to an economic analysis using present value are assessing the magnitudes of the relevant cost or benefit flows, determining the period over which these flows will occur, and selecting the appropriate discount rate.
  One interpretation has it that Plato took numbers to be ratios of geometric magnitudes.
  The factor of safety for any stem in the canopy of even a large tree can be quantified provided that the magnitudes of stem working and breaking stresses are known.
  Together, these simulations suggest that selection is required to explain the overall reduction in hybrid indices, with varying magnitudes of selection being necessary to explain the dissimilarity among the four replicates.
  Compare your estimated magnitudes with those of the rest of the class.
  The magnitude of these correlations indicates that the constructs of supportiveness and social toy play are related to each other but are not the same thing.
  Numbers that denote the magnitudes of sets are called cardinal numbers.
  These magnitudes are approximations and should in no way be considered as standard magnitude values.
  It is useful to be able to provide verbal labels for likelihood ratios of various magnitudes.
  The level of the moral and psychological state is calculated as an arithmetic mean value of the magnitudes of the corresponding indicators with account taken of their weight coefficients.
  Given the range of possibilities, it is fortunate that we can make a few statements about the relative magnitudes of the biometric quantities without an explicit model of mutational effects.
  In contrast, the electric field is a vector quantity (meaning it has both a magnitude and a direction).
  He proposed the use of a graph for plotting a variable magnitude whose value depends on another variable.
  Test scores, presented as unadjusted means and standard deviations for the major groups tested, show the magnitudes of the mean numerical scores.
  Also, preliminary inspection showed no negative error variances and no theory-contradicting signs or magnitudes in the estimate values.
  Some of the magnitudes of physics are speed, force, and time.
  Synonyms
  value, index, indicator, measure, norm, order, quantity, number, vector, figure
3The degree of brightness of a star. The magnitude of an astronomical object is now reckoned as the negative logarithm of the brightness; a decrease of one magnitude represents an increase in brightness of 2.512 times. A star with an apparent magnitude of six is barely visible to the naked eye.
See also apparent magnitude, absolute magnitude
Example sentencesExamples
- Astronomers measure the brightness of stars in units called magnitudes but this is not a unit like a meter or a kilogramme.
- The aura's brightness increased in magnitude.
- It shines as bright as it ever does, at magnitude - 0.5; only two stars, Sirius and Canopus, are brighter.
- These resulted in his Photometric Researches, the first modern compilation of star magnitudes and among the first works to suggest a disk shape for the Milky Way galaxy.
- It appears as a very bright yellowish-white ‘star’ shining at magnitude 0.1 at midmonth.
- Early projections suggest that it might become as bright as magnitude 0.3, but this is uncertain.
- By using a list of stars of known magnitudes it is possible to determine the magnitude of the faintest visible stars on any particular night.
- Just off-center was a yellow star of a brighter magnitude than the others around it.
- Use the visual magnitudes and distances you found earlier to find the absolute magnitudes of these stars.
- The difference between photographic and visual magnitudes was a convenient measure of a star's color.
- He classified the stars into 6 magnitudes where 1 is the brightest and 6 is the faintest visible to the naked eye.
- The brightness increases as magnitude lowers.
- The lights were all of a greater relative magnitude than Sirius - perhaps equaling or greater than Venus in brightness.
- Although it swings back toward the Sun after the 15th, it remains visible until nearly the end of the month as it brightens to magnitude - 0.7.
- He carried out a large survey of stellar magnitudes while at the Göttingen Observatory, publishing Aktinometrie (the first part in 1910, the second in 1912).
- We would appear as a brilliant bluish-white star of magnitude - 2.3, apparently hovering not too far from Venus.
- At midmonth the ringed planet appears as a bright yellow-white ‘star’ shining at magnitude 0.3.
- The main work was to photograph the Southern skies (repeatedly in interesting areas) with various instruments and thereby to derive the positions, magnitudes and spectra of stars and other objects.
- The brightness classes are now known as apparent magnitudes, and are denoted by a lowercase m.
- Mars now appears as a moderately bright yellowish-orange star of magnitude + 1.2.
Synonyms
brightness, brilliance, radiance, luminosity
1. 3.1 The class into which a star falls by virtue of its brightness.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Cancer is a constellation with few stars, none brighter than 4th magnitude.
  Labrum, though only 4th magnitude, is the brightest.
  Hubble can detect objects as faint as thirty-first magnitude, which is comparable to the sensitivity of much larger Earth-based telescopes.
  Let us admit that Cygni, Tauri, and others, are stars of the second magnitude, such as are here to be considered.
  Neither fish is brightly illuminated, with only three of the constellation stars appearing slightly brighter than 4th magnitude.
2. 3.2 A difference of one on a scale of brightness, treated as a unit of measurement.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Mercury will be positioned above and to the right of Saturn on the evening of May 6 and will appear nearly one full magnitude brighter.

Origin

Late Middle English (also in the sense ‘greatness of character’): from Latin magnitudo, from magnus ‘great’.

单词	magnitude
释义	Definition of magnitude in English: magnitude noun ˈmaɡnɪtjuːdˈmæɡnəˌt(j)ud mass noun 1The great size or extent of something. they may feel discouraged at the magnitude of the task before them Example sentencesExamples The magnitude of the task was overwhelming, the costs intimidating, yet even if had they been grasped there was not the talent within government to deliver. It would be a security engineering task of unbelievable magnitude, and I don't think we have a prayer of getting it right. She observed that organising a tournament of such magnitude was a mammoth task and urged Lilayi Polo Club to use the sponsorship wisely to further develop the sport. His cell is larger than the others, owing to the sheer magnitude of his size, and it's a single. Will a park of this massive magnitude get off the ground? The size and magnitude of the room overwhelmed Enela. A creature of this magnitude would need immense open spaces. We understand that not all bills are subject to consideration by this council, but given the substance and magnitude of this legislation, we feel it is an appropriate and necessary step. The size and magnitude of the attendance alone is mind-boggling. We were enthusiastic about making our practice more evidence based but initially daunted by the potential magnitude of the task. Proposing the means by which this group psychopathology can be overcome is a task of magnitude beyond the scope of this work. It's also important to grasp the magnitude of the challenge they're undertaking. That Newmont is planning a school teaching the basic thee Rs, not to kids, but to adults keen to get a job, is a measure of the task's magnitude. Reports about the 7.9 earthquake remain sketchy, but an earthquake of that magnitude can do massive damage. One would have thought that a story of this magnitude would warrant extensive media coverage but no, the silence is deafening. The technical magnitude of such a task is compounded by the need to ensure the accuracy and authority of Internet-based resources. Unable to state how much would be required, he said a tournament of such magnitude called for substantial resources and his association was appealing for assistance to make the tournament a success. It certainly took everyone by surprise in terms of the scope and magnitude of the devastation. And so when an officer or his crew makes a mistake of this magnitude or proportion, the end state is the same. Do we know how - what the extent of the magnitude of this disaster is yet, or are we still finding things out? Synonyms immensity, vastness, hugeness, enormity, enormousness, expanse size, extent, greatness, largeness, bigness 1.1 Great importance. events of tragic magnitude Example sentencesExamples The catastrophe of the Late Devonian was roughly equivalent in magnitude to the event at the end of the Cretaceous that killed the dinosaurs. They came to Everett Mall to face the overwhelming pressure, cutthroat competition and public humiliation only an event of this magnitude can provide. New York has never witnessed an event of this magnitude, as the 22nd An event of this magnitude could perhaps one day bring recognition to ‘true’ heroes and heroines in society. The first danger lies in the unknowables - unpredictable events of such magnitude that they swamp the variables that economists are comfortable dealing with. And, despite the unfathomable magnitude of the events of that morning, life has, for all intents and purposes, returned to normal for most of us. The media is speculating about our financial returns, but the promotional value of telecasting an event of such magnitude is immense. The magnitude of such events being celebrated at this venue by the district administration becomes high with the participation of numerous schools and colleges. He said it was important to emphasise that the November 14 flooding was ‘an event of extraordinary magnitude.’ A big thank you also to the sponsors of the various races without whose support and sponsorship it would not have been possible to host an event of this magnitude. For comparative historical analysis, this should be a revolution of the same magnitude as the Hubble space telescope was in astronomy. A world event of this magnitude has been sadly absent from these shores since football's World Cup of 1966 and remember how brilliant that was. When the inevitable occurs, and he dies as a result of his fragile constitution, the event is of such magnitude that the narrator is overwhelmed by grief and despair. Organizers wish to express their enormous appreciation to community and corporate sponsors without which an event of this magnitude could not happen. The minister said events of such magnitude had a positive impact on a country's economy as they boosted the tourism sector and also helped in upgrading of infrastructure. Now, I believe that an event of this magnitude doesn't just deserve attention - it deserves some special attention. One, they were coming in relatively small numbers for a news event of this magnitude… In time he'll come to appreciate the Beatles' artistry and realize the historic magnitude of the events he's covering. Does an event of this magnitude necessarily have momentous causes stretching far back in French history? The fullest consequences and magnitude of this shift are yet to be adequately noticed. Synonyms importance, import, significance, weight, moment, consequence, mark, notability, note, greatness, distinction, eminence, fame, renown, intensity, power 2Size. electorates of less than average magnitude Example sentencesExamples The degree and magnitude of the health risks involved in cell phone usage have yet to be determined in a comprehensive manner. The position of a mobile pointer on a calibrated scale carries information about the magnitude of the quantity being measured. With the thermodynamic value of total power, we can then estimate the average magnitude of tectonic stress. Given the magnitude of these numbers, a substantial volume of recruitment would be expected for direct care-givers such as nursing aides. If the average business tried to pass on price increases of this magnitude to their customers they would quickly find themselves going out of business. That is to say, the average American income is of quite some magnitude above the average New Zealand income. This correlation may have been increased when few extreme animals per family were selected, because the average magnitude of residual effects was likely increased. It is not the mean river flow that determines the yield from a dam on a river, but the duration and magnitude of sequences of below average flows. No rigorous studies have evaluated the frequency or magnitude of effects of such substances on blood pressure. This underrepresentation is of the same magnitude as the average for genes in the human genome. A reduction of that magnitude represents a significant potential savings - a savings greater than many facility executives realize. In addition, its average magnitude also decreased slightly. Asset deflation of this magnitude for the average American is thus very painful. More generally, estimates of the average magnitude of epistasis per mutation pair are difficult to extract from designs of this type. Grasses, for example, produce an insulative thatch that reduces the average temperature and the magnitude of temperature fluctuations in surface mineral soils. It steadily increased in size until it reached its full magnitude in 1885 as an ugly but substantial shelf-like structure. In regard to the immense territory of the United States, magnitude is best conveyed by considering the variety of the society settled on it, as various as that of Europe. The remaining mitochondrial data support similar divergence time estimates, with differences increasing in magnitude as average calibration age increases. The magnitude of all species activity at the still water site on Brier Island was one-third the average magnitude of activity at still water sites at Kejimkujik National Park. Although some realignments took place, both their frequency and magnitude were substantially lower than in the previous phase. Synonyms size, extent, measure, proportions, dimensions, breadth, volume, weight, quantity, mass, bulk amplitude, capacity, strength, degree, gauge, measurement, extension 2.1count noun A numerical quantity or value. the magnitudes of all the economic variables could be determined Example sentencesExamples Compare your estimated magnitudes with those of the rest of the class. In contrast, the electric field is a vector quantity (meaning it has both a magnitude and a direction). The level of the moral and psychological state is calculated as an arithmetic mean value of the magnitudes of the corresponding indicators with account taken of their weight coefficients. One interpretation has it that Plato took numbers to be ratios of geometric magnitudes. He proposed the use of a graph for plotting a variable magnitude whose value depends on another variable. The problem with visual interpretation of the results is that it is not possible to reliably intuit the quantitative magnitudes of the various contributions and thus the balance of terms which gives rise to the net entropy changes. Some of the magnitudes of physics are speed, force, and time. It is useful to be able to provide verbal labels for likelihood ratios of various magnitudes. The factor of safety for any stem in the canopy of even a large tree can be quantified provided that the magnitudes of stem working and breaking stresses are known. Together, these simulations suggest that selection is required to explain the overall reduction in hybrid indices, with varying magnitudes of selection being necessary to explain the dissimilarity among the four replicates. The three dimensions to an economic analysis using present value are assessing the magnitudes of the relevant cost or benefit flows, determining the period over which these flows will occur, and selecting the appropriate discount rate. The magnitudes of the coefficients associated with buddy status and teammate aggressiveness were lower in this model than in the concurrent model. These magnitudes are approximations and should in no way be considered as standard magnitude values. Determining meaningful qualitative values for the magnitudes of quantities is a difficult task when building qualitative models about populations. Given the range of possibilities, it is fortunate that we can make a few statements about the relative magnitudes of the biometric quantities without an explicit model of mutational effects. Numbers that denote the magnitudes of sets are called cardinal numbers. There is, however, an unexplained discrepancy between the magnitudes of the diffusion coefficients obtained from the two techniques. The magnitude of these correlations indicates that the constructs of supportiveness and social toy play are related to each other but are not the same thing. Also, preliminary inspection showed no negative error variances and no theory-contradicting signs or magnitudes in the estimate values. Test scores, presented as unadjusted means and standard deviations for the major groups tested, show the magnitudes of the mean numerical scores. Synonyms value, index, indicator, measure, norm, order, quantity, number, vector, figure 3The degree of brightness of a star, as represented by a number on a logarithmic scale. count noun the brightest stars have the lowest magnitudes Example sentencesExamples The difference between photographic and visual magnitudes was a convenient measure of a star's color. Although it swings back toward the Sun after the 15th, it remains visible until nearly the end of the month as it brightens to magnitude - 0.7. Use the visual magnitudes and distances you found earlier to find the absolute magnitudes of these stars. He classified the stars into 6 magnitudes where 1 is the brightest and 6 is the faintest visible to the naked eye. By using a list of stars of known magnitudes it is possible to determine the magnitude of the faintest visible stars on any particular night. It appears as a very bright yellowish-white ‘star’ shining at magnitude 0.1 at midmonth. These resulted in his Photometric Researches, the first modern compilation of star magnitudes and among the first works to suggest a disk shape for the Milky Way galaxy. The brightness increases as magnitude lowers. We would appear as a brilliant bluish-white star of magnitude - 2.3, apparently hovering not too far from Venus. Just off-center was a yellow star of a brighter magnitude than the others around it. Astronomers measure the brightness of stars in units called magnitudes but this is not a unit like a meter or a kilogramme. The lights were all of a greater relative magnitude than Sirius - perhaps equaling or greater than Venus in brightness. He carried out a large survey of stellar magnitudes while at the Göttingen Observatory, publishing Aktinometrie (the first part in 1910, the second in 1912). Mars now appears as a moderately bright yellowish-orange star of magnitude + 1.2. The main work was to photograph the Southern skies (repeatedly in interesting areas) with various instruments and thereby to derive the positions, magnitudes and spectra of stars and other objects. The aura's brightness increased in magnitude. The brightness classes are now known as apparent magnitudes, and are denoted by a lowercase m. It shines as bright as it ever does, at magnitude - 0.5; only two stars, Sirius and Canopus, are brighter. At midmonth the ringed planet appears as a bright yellow-white ‘star’ shining at magnitude 0.3. Early projections suggest that it might become as bright as magnitude 0.3, but this is uncertain. Synonyms brightness, brilliance, radiance, luminosity absolute magnitude, apparent magnitude 3.1count noun The class into which a star falls by virtue of its brightness. a star of the fifth magnitude Example sentencesExamples Hubble can detect objects as faint as thirty-first magnitude, which is comparable to the sensitivity of much larger Earth-based telescopes. Labrum, though only 4th magnitude, is the brightest. Neither fish is brightly illuminated, with only three of the constellation stars appearing slightly brighter than 4th magnitude. Cancer is a constellation with few stars, none brighter than 4th magnitude. Let us admit that Cygni, Tauri, and others, are stars of the second magnitude, such as are here to be considered. 3.2count noun A difference of one on a scale of brightness, treated as a unit of measurement. a range of a tenth of a magnitude Example sentencesExamples Mercury will be positioned above and to the right of Saturn on the evening of May 6 and will appear nearly one full magnitude brighter. Origin Late Middle English (also in the sense 'greatness of character'): from Latin magnitudo, from magnus 'great'. Definition of magnitude in US English: magnitude nounˈmæɡnəˌt(j)udˈmaɡnəˌt(y)o͞od 1The great size or extent of something. they may feel discouraged at the magnitude of the task before them Example sentencesExamples That Newmont is planning a school teaching the basic thee Rs, not to kids, but to adults keen to get a job, is a measure of the task's magnitude. Proposing the means by which this group psychopathology can be overcome is a task of magnitude beyond the scope of this work. And so when an officer or his crew makes a mistake of this magnitude or proportion, the end state is the same. The size and magnitude of the room overwhelmed Enela. Will a park of this massive magnitude get off the ground? The magnitude of the task was overwhelming, the costs intimidating, yet even if had they been grasped there was not the talent within government to deliver. It certainly took everyone by surprise in terms of the scope and magnitude of the devastation. The size and magnitude of the attendance alone is mind-boggling. The technical magnitude of such a task is compounded by the need to ensure the accuracy and authority of Internet-based resources. It would be a security engineering task of unbelievable magnitude, and I don't think we have a prayer of getting it right. Unable to state how much would be required, he said a tournament of such magnitude called for substantial resources and his association was appealing for assistance to make the tournament a success. We understand that not all bills are subject to consideration by this council, but given the substance and magnitude of this legislation, we feel it is an appropriate and necessary step. Do we know how - what the extent of the magnitude of this disaster is yet, or are we still finding things out? His cell is larger than the others, owing to the sheer magnitude of his size, and it's a single. Reports about the 7.9 earthquake remain sketchy, but an earthquake of that magnitude can do massive damage. It's also important to grasp the magnitude of the challenge they're undertaking. We were enthusiastic about making our practice more evidence based but initially daunted by the potential magnitude of the task. One would have thought that a story of this magnitude would warrant extensive media coverage but no, the silence is deafening. She observed that organising a tournament of such magnitude was a mammoth task and urged Lilayi Polo Club to use the sponsorship wisely to further develop the sport. A creature of this magnitude would need immense open spaces. Synonyms immensity, vastness, hugeness, enormity, enormousness, expanse 1.1 Great importance. events of tragic magnitude Example sentencesExamples They came to Everett Mall to face the overwhelming pressure, cutthroat competition and public humiliation only an event of this magnitude can provide. When the inevitable occurs, and he dies as a result of his fragile constitution, the event is of such magnitude that the narrator is overwhelmed by grief and despair. For comparative historical analysis, this should be a revolution of the same magnitude as the Hubble space telescope was in astronomy. New York has never witnessed an event of this magnitude, as the 22nd The fullest consequences and magnitude of this shift are yet to be adequately noticed. A big thank you also to the sponsors of the various races without whose support and sponsorship it would not have been possible to host an event of this magnitude. One, they were coming in relatively small numbers for a news event of this magnitude… The catastrophe of the Late Devonian was roughly equivalent in magnitude to the event at the end of the Cretaceous that killed the dinosaurs. The magnitude of such events being celebrated at this venue by the district administration becomes high with the participation of numerous schools and colleges. In time he'll come to appreciate the Beatles' artistry and realize the historic magnitude of the events he's covering. The media is speculating about our financial returns, but the promotional value of telecasting an event of such magnitude is immense. Does an event of this magnitude necessarily have momentous causes stretching far back in French history? Organizers wish to express their enormous appreciation to community and corporate sponsors without which an event of this magnitude could not happen. Now, I believe that an event of this magnitude doesn't just deserve attention - it deserves some special attention. An event of this magnitude could perhaps one day bring recognition to ‘true’ heroes and heroines in society. He said it was important to emphasise that the November 14 flooding was ‘an event of extraordinary magnitude.’ And, despite the unfathomable magnitude of the events of that morning, life has, for all intents and purposes, returned to normal for most of us. The first danger lies in the unknowables - unpredictable events of such magnitude that they swamp the variables that economists are comfortable dealing with. The minister said events of such magnitude had a positive impact on a country's economy as they boosted the tourism sector and also helped in upgrading of infrastructure. A world event of this magnitude has been sadly absent from these shores since football's World Cup of 1966 and remember how brilliant that was. Synonyms importance, import, significance, weight, moment, consequence, mark, notability, note, greatness, distinction, eminence, fame, renown, intensity, power 2Size. electorates of less than average magnitude Example sentencesExamples Given the magnitude of these numbers, a substantial volume of recruitment would be expected for direct care-givers such as nursing aides. If the average business tried to pass on price increases of this magnitude to their customers they would quickly find themselves going out of business. No rigorous studies have evaluated the frequency or magnitude of effects of such substances on blood pressure. The degree and magnitude of the health risks involved in cell phone usage have yet to be determined in a comprehensive manner. Grasses, for example, produce an insulative thatch that reduces the average temperature and the magnitude of temperature fluctuations in surface mineral soils. The position of a mobile pointer on a calibrated scale carries information about the magnitude of the quantity being measured. This correlation may have been increased when few extreme animals per family were selected, because the average magnitude of residual effects was likely increased. That is to say, the average American income is of quite some magnitude above the average New Zealand income. In regard to the immense territory of the United States, magnitude is best conveyed by considering the variety of the society settled on it, as various as that of Europe. A reduction of that magnitude represents a significant potential savings - a savings greater than many facility executives realize. The remaining mitochondrial data support similar divergence time estimates, with differences increasing in magnitude as average calibration age increases. More generally, estimates of the average magnitude of epistasis per mutation pair are difficult to extract from designs of this type. In addition, its average magnitude also decreased slightly. It steadily increased in size until it reached its full magnitude in 1885 as an ugly but substantial shelf-like structure. This underrepresentation is of the same magnitude as the average for genes in the human genome. Asset deflation of this magnitude for the average American is thus very painful. With the thermodynamic value of total power, we can then estimate the average magnitude of tectonic stress. Although some realignments took place, both their frequency and magnitude were substantially lower than in the previous phase. The magnitude of all species activity at the still water site on Brier Island was one-third the average magnitude of activity at still water sites at Kejimkujik National Park. It is not the mean river flow that determines the yield from a dam on a river, but the duration and magnitude of sequences of below average flows. Synonyms size, extent, measure, proportions, dimensions, breadth, volume, weight, quantity, mass, bulk 2.1 A numerical quantity or value. the magnitudes of all the economic variables could be determined Example sentencesExamples Determining meaningful qualitative values for the magnitudes of quantities is a difficult task when building qualitative models about populations. There is, however, an unexplained discrepancy between the magnitudes of the diffusion coefficients obtained from the two techniques. The problem with visual interpretation of the results is that it is not possible to reliably intuit the quantitative magnitudes of the various contributions and thus the balance of terms which gives rise to the net entropy changes. The magnitudes of the coefficients associated with buddy status and teammate aggressiveness were lower in this model than in the concurrent model. The three dimensions to an economic analysis using present value are assessing the magnitudes of the relevant cost or benefit flows, determining the period over which these flows will occur, and selecting the appropriate discount rate. One interpretation has it that Plato took numbers to be ratios of geometric magnitudes. The factor of safety for any stem in the canopy of even a large tree can be quantified provided that the magnitudes of stem working and breaking stresses are known. Together, these simulations suggest that selection is required to explain the overall reduction in hybrid indices, with varying magnitudes of selection being necessary to explain the dissimilarity among the four replicates. Compare your estimated magnitudes with those of the rest of the class. The magnitude of these correlations indicates that the constructs of supportiveness and social toy play are related to each other but are not the same thing. Numbers that denote the magnitudes of sets are called cardinal numbers. These magnitudes are approximations and should in no way be considered as standard magnitude values. It is useful to be able to provide verbal labels for likelihood ratios of various magnitudes. The level of the moral and psychological state is calculated as an arithmetic mean value of the magnitudes of the corresponding indicators with account taken of their weight coefficients. Given the range of possibilities, it is fortunate that we can make a few statements about the relative magnitudes of the biometric quantities without an explicit model of mutational effects. In contrast, the electric field is a vector quantity (meaning it has both a magnitude and a direction). He proposed the use of a graph for plotting a variable magnitude whose value depends on another variable. Test scores, presented as unadjusted means and standard deviations for the major groups tested, show the magnitudes of the mean numerical scores. Also, preliminary inspection showed no negative error variances and no theory-contradicting signs or magnitudes in the estimate values. Some of the magnitudes of physics are speed, force, and time. Synonyms value, index, indicator, measure, norm, order, quantity, number, vector, figure 3The degree of brightness of a star. The magnitude of an astronomical object is now reckoned as the negative logarithm of the brightness; a decrease of one magnitude represents an increase in brightness of 2.512 times. A star with an apparent magnitude of six is barely visible to the naked eye. See also apparent magnitude, absolute magnitude Example sentencesExamples Astronomers measure the brightness of stars in units called magnitudes but this is not a unit like a meter or a kilogramme. The aura's brightness increased in magnitude. It shines as bright as it ever does, at magnitude - 0.5; only two stars, Sirius and Canopus, are brighter. These resulted in his Photometric Researches, the first modern compilation of star magnitudes and among the first works to suggest a disk shape for the Milky Way galaxy. It appears as a very bright yellowish-white ‘star’ shining at magnitude 0.1 at midmonth. Early projections suggest that it might become as bright as magnitude 0.3, but this is uncertain. By using a list of stars of known magnitudes it is possible to determine the magnitude of the faintest visible stars on any particular night. Just off-center was a yellow star of a brighter magnitude than the others around it. Use the visual magnitudes and distances you found earlier to find the absolute magnitudes of these stars. The difference between photographic and visual magnitudes was a convenient measure of a star's color. He classified the stars into 6 magnitudes where 1 is the brightest and 6 is the faintest visible to the naked eye. The brightness increases as magnitude lowers. The lights were all of a greater relative magnitude than Sirius - perhaps equaling or greater than Venus in brightness. Although it swings back toward the Sun after the 15th, it remains visible until nearly the end of the month as it brightens to magnitude - 0.7. He carried out a large survey of stellar magnitudes while at the Göttingen Observatory, publishing Aktinometrie (the first part in 1910, the second in 1912). We would appear as a brilliant bluish-white star of magnitude - 2.3, apparently hovering not too far from Venus. At midmonth the ringed planet appears as a bright yellow-white ‘star’ shining at magnitude 0.3. The main work was to photograph the Southern skies (repeatedly in interesting areas) with various instruments and thereby to derive the positions, magnitudes and spectra of stars and other objects. The brightness classes are now known as apparent magnitudes, and are denoted by a lowercase m. Mars now appears as a moderately bright yellowish-orange star of magnitude + 1.2. Synonyms brightness, brilliance, radiance, luminosity 3.1 The class into which a star falls by virtue of its brightness. Example sentencesExamples Cancer is a constellation with few stars, none brighter than 4th magnitude. Labrum, though only 4th magnitude, is the brightest. Hubble can detect objects as faint as thirty-first magnitude, which is comparable to the sensitivity of much larger Earth-based telescopes. Let us admit that Cygni, Tauri, and others, are stars of the second magnitude, such as are here to be considered. Neither fish is brightly illuminated, with only three of the constellation stars appearing slightly brighter than 4th magnitude. 3.2 A difference of one on a scale of brightness, treated as a unit of measurement. Example sentencesExamples Mercury will be positioned above and to the right of Saturn on the evening of May 6 and will appear nearly one full magnitude brighter. Origin Late Middle English (also in the sense ‘greatness of character’): from Latin magnitudo, from magnus ‘great’.
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