英语词汇“magnitude”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	magnitude
释义	mag·ni·tude \ˈmagnəˌtüd, ˈmaig-, -nə.ˌtyüd\ noun (-s) Etymology: Middle English, from Latin magnitudo, from magnus great + -i- + -tudo -tude — more at much 1. obsolete : greatness of character or position : nobility 2. a. (1) : greatness of size or extent : vastness < cannot wage a war of such magnitude … without inaugurating a new epoch — A.N.Whitehead > < the magnitude of his literary output — H.W.H.Knott > < the magnitude of the shift away from centralized planning of all economic activity — Harry Schwartz > (2) : size 3a(1) < negative accelerations of any considerable magnitude in aircraft are seldom encountered — H.G.Armstrong > < able to operate only over distances of very small magnitude — G.W.Gray b. 1886 > (3) : quantity, number < the savings in amounts of metal … will be of dramatically significant magnitudes — American Fabrics > b. : volume, loudness < the magnitude of the total sound made … was astounding — William Beebe > 3. : the importance, quality, or caliber of something < a seaside curiosity of the first magnitude — Charles Gordon > < disappointing work by a writer of first magnitude — Richard Plant > < this is no bad test of the stature, or rather the magnitude, of a poet — David Daiches > < this court can be insensible neither to the magnitude nor delicacy of this question — John Marshall > 4. : a number representing the intrinsic or apparent brightness of a celestial body on a logarithmic scale in which a difference of one unit corresponds to the multiplication or division of the brightness of light by 2.512+ and a difference of five units corresponds to the multiplication or division by 100 < a star of magnitude 3.0 is approximately 2.512 times brighter than a star of magnitude 4.0 > < a star of magnitude 1.0 is 100 times brighter than one of magnitude 6.0 > — compare absolute magnitude, apparent magnitude, visual magnitude 5. : a number assigned to a quantity by means of which the quantity may be compared with other quantities of the same class 6. : the amount of energy released at the source of an earthquake or indicated by the intensity of an earthquake at one place and usually represented by a number on an arbitrary scale Synonyms: see size
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