Magnum
[mag-nuh m] /ˈmæg nəm/
noun
1.
a large wine bottle having a capacity of two ordinary bottles or 1.5 liters (1.6 quarts).
2.
a magnum cartridge or firearm.
adjective
3.
(of a cartridge) equipped with a larger charge than other cartridges of the same size.
4.
(of a firearm) using such a cartridge.
5.
Informal. unusually great in power or size:
a magnum spotlight; a magnum dosage.
/ˈmæɡnəm/
noun (pl) -nums
1.
a wine bottle holding the equivalent of two normal bottles (approximately 52 fluid ounces)
n.
1788, “bottle containing two quarts of wine or spirits,” from Latin magnum, neuter of magnus “great in size” (see magnate). Registered 1935 by Smith & Wesson Inc., of Springfield, Massachusetts, as the name of a powerful type of handgun.
A database language for DEC-10’s, used internally by Tymshare, Inc.. MAGNUM was designed in the late 1970’s by Dale Jordan, Rich Strauss and Dave McQuoid originally, and was written in BLISS-10. It was the world’s first commercial relational database. It was in the process of being written in 1976.
(1995-01-25)
Read Also:
- Magnum-force
adjective Very powerful: one of Thomas Hearns’s magnum-force punches [fr the powerful Magnum revolver (a trademark since 1935)]
- Magnum-opus
noun 1. a great work, especially the chief work of a writer or artist: Proust’s magnum opus is Remembrance of Things Past. noun 1. a great work of art or literature, esp the greatest single work of an artist “masterpiece, a person’s greatest work,” Latin, literally “great work” (see magnum + opus). magnum opus [(mag-nuhm […]
- Magnus
[mahg-noo s ahn-noo s] /ˈmɑg nʊs ˈɑn nʊs/ noun, Latin. 1. the Great Year: a cycle of years, usually a thousand, that begins with a Golden Age, steadily deteriorates, and ends with a universal catastrophe, either a fire or a flood. Scandinavian masc. proper name, popular with early kings, the first to use it was […]
- Magnus-annus
[mahg-noo s ahn-noo s] /ˈmɑg nʊs ˈɑn nʊs/ noun, Latin. 1. the Great Year: a cycle of years, usually a thousand, that begins with a Golden Age, steadily deteriorates, and ends with a universal catastrophe, either a fire or a flood.
- Magnus-effect
[mag-nuh s] /ˈmæg nəs/ noun, Mechanics. 1. the thrust on a cylinder rotating about its axis while in motion in a fluid, the thrust being perpendicular to the relative motion of the cylinder in the fluid.