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magnum
[ mag-nuhm ]
noun
- a large wine bottle having a capacity of two ordinary bottles or 1.5 liters (1.6 quarts).
- a magnum cartridge or firearm.
adjective
- (of a cartridge) equipped with a larger charge than other cartridges of the same size.
- (of a firearm) using such a cartridge.
- Informal. unusually great in power or size:
a magnum spotlight; a magnum dosage.
magnum
/ ˈmæɡnəm /
noun
- a wine bottle holding the equivalent of two normal bottles (approximately 52 fluid ounces)
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Example Sentences
Paris Magnum: Exhibition runs from December 12, 2014-March 28, 2015.
Magnum came into being as a cooperative only two years after the conclusion of World War II.
Overall, Paris Magnum reaches both too widely and too thinly in trying to convey a sense of spectrum.
Magnum is an entrusted brand, with an irrefutably global reach.
Catalogue, published by Flammarion (2014), includes photographs from the Magnum Photos archives and text by Éric Hazan.
He regarded his organ in St. Paul's Cathedral (rebuilt in 1899), as his magnum opus.
Timor, luctus, gaudium magnum, et aversio hanc impotentiam psychicam efficiunt.
To behold “Diana unveiled” was equivalent in alchemical terminology to attaining the magnum opus.
But to determine what these propositions are, is the opus magnum of the more recondite mental philosophy.
The colonel smoothed things over and it ended in a magnum of champagne being ordered.
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