Magnitude

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun Greatness; grandeur.

II. Magnitude ·noun That which has one or more of the three dimensions, length, breadth, and thickness.

III. Magnitude ·noun Greatness, in reference to influence or effect; importance; as, an affair of magnitude.

IV. Magnitude ·noun Extent of dimensions; size;

— applied to things that have length, breath, and thickness.

V. Magnitude ·noun Anything of which greater or less can be predicated, as time, weight, force, and the like.

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