magnum
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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.
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Origin:
1780–90; < Latin, neuter of magnus large; in reference to firearms, orig. used as a trademark by the Smith and Wesson Co.
1780–90; < Latin, neuter of magnus large; in reference to firearms, orig. used as a trademark by the Smith and Wesson Co.
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| —n , pl -nums | |
| a wine bottle holding the equivalent of two normal bottles (approximately 52 fluid ounces) | |
| [C18: from Latin: a big thing, from magnus large] | |
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Word Origin & History
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.
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MAGNUM definition
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.
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