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| 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. |

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)