magnitude
/ˈmæɡnɪtjuːd/
magnitude noun: the absolute or relative size, extent or importance of something.
Noun
magnitude (countable and uncountable, plural magnitudes)
- The absolute or relative size, extent or importance of something.
- And on a programme of works of this magnitude, passengers will need to be mindful of the age-old maxim of 'no gain without pain'.2020 September 23, Paul Stephen, “East Coast upgrade: changes to schedule... but on schedule”, in Rail, page 31
- An order of magnitude.
- A number, assigned to something, such that it may be compared to others numerically
- Of a vector, the norm, most commonly, the two-norm.
- The apparent brightness of a star, with lower magnitudes being brighter; apparent magnitude
- A ratio of intensity expressed as a logarithm.
- Observations in the infrared domain allow one to penetrate the ~25-30 magnitudes of extinction present at visible wavelengths.2005, Andreas Eckart et al., The Black Hole at the Center of the Milky Way, →ISBN, page 71
- A measure of the energy released by an earthquake (e.g. on the Richter scale).
magnitude meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
magnitude in Hindi
- size, etc.
- आकार ākār
- apparent brightness of a star
- सापेक्ष कांतिमान sāpekṣ kāntimān
- energy of earthquake
- परिमाण parimāṇ
magnitude in Tamil
- தொடர்ச்சியான, அளவிடக்கூடிய, கருத்து, அளவு, பரிமாணம், பருமை
magnitude in Urdu
- magnitude, bodily dimensions
- جسامت jasāmat
- magnitude
- مان mān
magnitude in Bengali
- বিশালতা, প্রসার, বিস্তার, গুরুত্ব, বিরাটত্ব, ঔজ্বল্যের পরিমাণ
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- magnitude in Malayalam
- പരിമാണം parimāṇaṁ
- magnitude in Kannada
- ಆಕಾರ, ಪರಿಮಾಣ, ಪ್ರಮಾಣ, ಅಳತೆ
- magnitude in Gujarati
- મહત્ત્વ mahattva
- magnitude in Nepali
- परिमाण, म्याग्निच्युड, म्याग्निट्युड
- magnitude in Tagalog
- dakil, kinang
- magnitude in Persian
- قدر فروغ qadr
Examples of magnitude in a sentence
- The magnitude of an earthquake is measured on the open-ended Richter scale.
- We've found that git reverts are at least an order of magnitude faster than SVN reverse merges.
- The IEEE standard for floating point uses signed magnitude for the mantissa.
Forms of magnitude
| plural | magnitudes |
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Origin of magnitude
From Latin magnitūdō (“greatness, size”), magnus + -tūdō.
Words formed from magnitude
Phrases with magnitude
Questions about magnitude
- What does magnitude mean?
- Magnitude means the absolute or relative size, extent or importance of something.
- What is magnitude in Hindi?
- Magnitude in Hindi is आकार (ākār), सापेक्ष कांतिमान (sāpekṣ kāntimān), परिमाण (parimāṇ). See Magnitude meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is magnitude?
- Magnitude is a noun.
- How do you pronounce magnitude?
- Magnitude is pronounced /ˈmæɡnɪtjuːd/.
- What is the plural of magnitude?
- The plural of magnitude is magnitudes.
Words near magnitude in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: magnitude (page history and authors); magnitude (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); جسامت (Urdu) (page history and authors); magnitude (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); പരിമാണം (Malayalam) (page history and authors); magnitude (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); મહત્ત્વ (Gujarati) (page history and authors); magnitude (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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