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mag⋅num

  [mag-nuhm]
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–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.
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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mag·num   (māg'nəm)   
n.  

  1. A bottle, holding about two fifths of a gallon (1.5 liters), for wine or liquor.

  2. The amount of liquid that this bottle can hold.

  3. A magnum cartridge or firearm.

adj.  

  1. Of or relating to a cartridge containing a larger explosive charge than other cartridges of the same size.

  2. Designed to shoot magnum cartridges.


[From Latin, neuter of magnus, great; see meg- in Indo-European roots.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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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. Magnum opus "masterpiece," is from L., lit. "great work" (see opus).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: magnum
—see FORAMEN MAGNUM
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Computing Dictionary

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)

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