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Webster 1913 Edition
Magnitude
1.
Extent of dimensions; size; – applied to things that have length, breadth, 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.)
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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Magnitude
MAG'NITUDE
,Noun.
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.