Noun
magnitude (countable and uncountable, plural magnitudes)
- (uncountable, countable) The absolute or relative size, extent or importance of something.
2020 September 23, Paul Stephen, “East Coast upgrade: changes to schedule... but on schedule”, in Rail, page 31: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'.
- (countable) An order of magnitude.
- (mathematics) A number, assigned to something, such that it may be compared to others numerically
- (mathematics) Of a vector, the norm, most commonly, the two-norm.
- (astronomy) A logarithmic scale of brightness defined so that a difference of 5 magnitudes is a factor of 100.
- (uncountable) The apparent brightness of a star, with lower magnitudes being brighter; apparent magnitude
- (countable) A ratio of intensity expressed as a logarithm.
2005, Andreas Eckart et al., The Black Hole at the Center of the Milky Way, →ISBN, page 71:Observations in the infrared domain allow one to penetrate the ~25-30 magnitudes of extinction present at visible wavelengths.
- (seismology) A measure of the energy released by an earthquake (e.g. on the Richter scale).
Translations
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)
- 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
Pronunciation
- (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