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mag·num 
[mag-nuhm] Pronunciation Key
[mag-nuhm] Pronunciation Key –noun
–adjective
| 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. |
| 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. |
[Origin: 1780–90; < L, neut. of magnus large; in reference to firearms, orig. used as a trademark by the Smith and Wesson Co.]
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American Heritage Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
| mag·num
(māg'nəm) Pronunciation Key
n.
adj.
[From Latin, neuter of magnus, great; see meg- in Indo-European roots.] |
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
magnum
magnum
1788, "bottle containing two quarts of wine or spirits," from L. magnum, neut. of magnus "great" (see magnate). Registered 1935 by Smith & Wesson Inc., of Springfield, Mass., as the name of a powerful type of handgun. Magnum opus "masterpiece," is from L., lit. "great work" (see opus).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Free On-line Dictionary of Computing - Cite This Source - Share This
MAGNUM
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)
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
Magnum
Mag"num\, n. [Neut. sing. of L. magnus great.]1. A large wine bottle. They passed the magnum to one another freely. --Sir W. Scott. 2. (Anat.) A bone of the carpus at the base of the third metacarpal bone.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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