FromLatinmagnitūdō(“greatness, size”),magnus +-tūdō.
magnitude (countable anduncountable,pluralmagnitudes)
- (uncountable, countable) The absolute or relativesize,extent orimportance of something.
2020 September 23, Paul Stephen, “East Coast upgrade: changes to schedule... but on schedule”, inRail, page31:And on a programme of works of thismagnitude, passengers will need to be mindful of the age-old maxim of 'no gain without pain'.
- (countable) Anorder of magnitude.
- (mathematics) Anumber, assigned to something, such that it may becompared to others numerically
- (mathematics) Of avector, thenorm, most commonly, thetwo-norm.
- (astronomy) Alogarithmic scale of brightness defined so that a difference of 5 magnitudes is a factor of 100.
- (uncountable) Theapparentbrightness of astar, with lower magnitudes being brighter;apparent magnitude
- (countable) A ratio of intensity expressed as a logarithm.
2005, Andreas Eckartet al.,The Black Hole at the Center of the Milky Way[1],→ISBN, page71:Observations in the infrared domain allow one to penetrate the ~25-30magnitudes of extinction present at visible wavelengths.
- (seismology) A measure of theenergy released by anearthquake (e.g. on theRichter scale).
size, etc.
- Armenian:մեծություն (hy)(mecutʻyun),չափ (hy)(čʻapʻ)
- Belarusian:велічыня́ (be) f(vjeličynjá)
- Bulgarian:големина (bg) f(golemina)
- Catalan:magnitud (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin:大小 (zh)(dàxiǎo)
- Dutch:grootte (nl) f
- Esperanto:grandeco
- Estonian:suurus,ulatus,tähtsus
- Finnish:koko (fi),laajuus (fi),merkitys (fi)
- French:ampleur (fr) f
- Georgian:სიდიდე(sidide)
- Gothic:𐌼𐌹𐌺𐌹𐌻𐌳𐌿𐌸𐍃 f(mikildūþs),𐌼𐌹𐌺𐌹𐌻𐌴𐌹 f(mikilei)
- Greek:
- Ancient:μέγεθος n(mégethos)
- Hindi:आकार (hi) m(ākār)
- Ingrian:suurus
- Irish:méid (ga) f
- Italian:vastità (it) f,magnitudine (it)
- Japanese:大きさ (ja)(おおきさ, ōkisa)
- Latin:magnitūdō f
- Macedonian:голе́мина f(golémina)
- Maori:kaha (mi)
- Polish:wielkość (pl) f
- Portuguese:grandeza (pt) f,magnitude (pt)
- Romanian:mărime (ro) f
- Russian:величина́ (ru) f(veličiná),разме́р (ru) m(razmér)
- Scottish Gaelic:meudachd f
- Spanish:magnitud (es) f
- Swedish:magnitud (sv) c
- Tagalog:dakil
- Tajik:бузургӣ(buzurgi)
- Turkish:şiddet (tr),büyüklük (tr)
- Ukrainian:величина́ (uk) f(velyčyná)
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apparent brighness of a star
magnitude f (pluralmagnitudes)
- magnitude
magnitude f (pluralmagnitudes)
- magnitude
Learned borrowing fromLatinmagnitūdō(“greatness, size”). Bysurface analysis,magno +-itude.
- (Brazil)IPA(key): /ma.ɡi.niˈtu.d͡ʒi/,/maɡ.niˈtu.d͡ʒi/
- (Southern Brazil)IPA(key): /maɡ.niˈtu.de/,/ma.ɡi.niˈtu.de/
- Rhymes:(Brazil)-ud͡ʒi,(Portugal)-udɨ
- Hyphenation:mag‧ni‧tu‧de
magnitude f (pluralmagnitudes)
- magnitude(size, extent or importance)
- (mathematics)magnitude(value assigned to a variable)
- (mathematics)magnitude(the norm of a vector)
- (astronomy)magnitude(apparent brightness of a star)
- (seismology)magnitude(energy of an earthquake)
