English-Thai Dictionary

magnitude

N ขนาดใหญ่  ความ ใหญ่ (ของ ขนาด หรือ ปริมา ณ  amplitude greatness order of magnitude ka-nad-yai

 

magnitude

N ความสำคัญ  kwam-sam-kan

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

MAGNITUDE

n.[L. magnitudo. ] Extent of dimensions or parts; bulk; size; applied to things that have length, breadth or thickness. 1. Greatness; grandeur.
With plain heroic magnitude of mind.
2. Greatness, in reference to influence or effect; importance. In affairs or magnitude, disdain not to take counsel.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

MAGNITUDE

Mag "ni *tude, n. Etym: [L. magnitudo, from magnus great. See Master, and cf. Maxim. ]

 

1. Extent of dimensions; size; -- applied to things that have length, breath, and thickness. Conceive those particles of bodies to be so disposed amongst themselves, that the intervals of empty spaces between them may be equal in magnitude to them all. Sir I. Newton.

 

2. (Geom.)

 

Defn: That which has one or more of the three dimensions, length, breadth, and thickness.

 

3. Anything of which greater or less can be predicated, as time, weight, force, and the like.

 

4. Greatness; grandeur. "With plain, heroic magnitude of mind. " Milton.

 

5. Greatness, in reference to influence or effect; importance; as, an affair of magnitude. The magnitude of his designs. Bp. Horsley. Apparent magnitude (Opt. ), the angular breadth of an object viewed as measured by the angle which it subtends at the eye of the observer; - - called also apparent diameter. -- Magnitude of a star (Astron.), the rank of a star with respect to brightness. About twenty very bright stars are said to be of first magnitude, the stars of the sixth magnitude being just visible to the naked eye. Telescopic stars are classified down to the twelfth magnitude or lower. The scale of the magnitudes is quite arbitrary, but by means of photometers, the classification has been made to tenths of a magnitude.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

magnitude

mag ni tude |ˈmagnəˌto͞od ˈmæɡnəˌt (j )ud | ▶noun 1 the great size or extent of something: they may feel discouraged at the magnitude of the task before them. • great importance: events of tragic magnitude. 2 size: electorates of less than average magnitude. • a numerical quantity or value: the magnitudes of all the economic variables could be determined. 3 the degree of brightness of a star. The magnitude of an astronomical object is now reckoned as the negative logarithm of the brightness; a decrease of one magnitude represents an increase in brightness of 2.512 times. A star with an apparent magnitude of six is barely visible to the naked eye. See also apparent magnitude, absolute magnitude. • the class into which a star falls by virtue of its brightness. • a difference of one on a scale of brightness, treated as a unit of measurement. PHRASES of the first magnitude see first. ORIGIN late Middle English (also in the sense ‘greatness of character ’): from Latin magnitudo, from magnus ‘great. ’

 

Oxford Dictionary

magnitude

magnitude |ˈmagnɪtjuːd | ▶noun [ mass noun ] 1 the great size or extent of something: they may feel discouraged at the magnitude of the task before them. • great importance: events of tragic magnitude. 2 size: electorates of less than average magnitude. • [ count noun ] a numerical quantity or value: the magnitudes of all the economic variables could be determined. 3 the degree of brightness of a star, as represented by a number on a logarithmic scale. • [ count noun ] the class into which a star falls by virtue of its brightness. • [ count noun ] a difference of one on a scale of brightness, treated as a unit of measurement. PHRASES of the first magnitude see first. ORIGIN late Middle English (also in the sense ‘greatness of character ’): from Latin magnitudo, from magnus ‘great ’.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

magnitude

magnitude noun 1 the magnitude of the task: immensity, vastness, hugeness, enormity; size, extent, expanse, greatness, largeness, bigness. ANTONYMS smallness. 2 events of tragic magnitude: importance, import, significance, weight, consequence, mark, notability, note; formal moment. ANTONYMS triviality. PHRASES of the first magnitude we are witnessing a historic event of the first magnitude: of the utmost importance, of the greatest significance, very important, of great consequence; formal of great moment.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

magnitude

magnitude noun 1 they felt daunted by the magnitude of the task: immensity, vastness, hugeness, enormity, enormousness, expanse; size, extent, greatness, largeness, bigness. ANTONYMS smallness. 2 events of tragic magnitude: importance, import, significance, weight, moment, consequence, mark, notability, note, greatness, distinction, eminence, fame, renown, intensity, power. ANTONYMS triviality. 3 electorates of less than average magnitude: size, extent, measure, proportions, dimensions, breadth, volume, weight, quantity, mass, bulk; amplitude, capacity, strength, degree, gauge, measurement, extension. 4 its brightest star is only of magnitude 4.2: brightness, brilliance, radiance, luminosity; absolute magnitude, apparent magnitude. 5 the magnitude of each economic variable could be determined: value, index, indicator, measure, norm, order, quantity, number, vector, figure. PHRASES of the first magnitude of the utmost importance, of the greatest significance, very important, of importance, of significance, of note, of great moment, of great consequence. WORD LINKS magnitude astrometry measurement of magnitude of stars Word Links sections supply words that are related to the headword but do not normally appear in a thesaurus because they are not actual synonyms.

 

Duden Dictionary

Magnitude

Ma g ni tu de , Ma gni tu de Substantiv, feminin , die |Magnit u de |die Magnitude; Genitiv: der Magnitude lateinisch Maß für die Stärke von Erdbeben

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

magnitude

mag ni tude /mǽɡnɪt j ùːd /〖magni (大きい )tude (こと )〗名詞 複 ～s /-dz /1 U 大きいこと ; 大きさ , 規模 ; 重大性 ▸ A change of this magnitude will take a lot of time .これほど大規模な変更には多くの時間がかかるだろう 2 C a. 〘天 〙(星の )等級 , 光度 ▸ a star of the third magnitude 3等星 b. 〘地 〙(地震の )マグニチュード (｟記号 ｠M )▸ a magnitude 7.7 earthquake マグニチュード7 .7の地震