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magnitude

The exact or approximate size, extent or importance of something. A number that is assigned to something so that it may be compared to others numerically; it is always a positive number (more than zero). The apparent brightness of a star. A measure of the energy of an earthquake (for example, on the Richter scale).

magnitude

the property of relative size or extent (whether large or small) they tried to predict the magnitude of the explosion about the magnitude of a small pea relative importance a problem of the first magnitude (= order of magnitude) a number assigned to the ratio of two quantities; two quantities are of the same order of magnitude if one is less than 10 times as large as the other; the number of magnitudes that the quantities differ is specified to within a power of 10

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An earthquake of magnitude 5 shook Tokyo.
A massive earthquake of magnitude 8.8 hit the Japanese islands today.
The Japan Meteorological Agency has revised the magnitude of the eastern Japan quake from 8.8 to 9.0, the largest recorded in world history.
Mathematics would certainly not have come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly straight line, no actual circle, no absolute magnitude.
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center has issued a tsunami warning after an 8.3 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Chile.
A force is a vector quantity so a force has both a magnitude and a direction.
A vector quantity has two characteristics, a magnitude and a direction.
When comparing two vector quantities of the same type, you have to compare both the magnitude and the direction.
He realized the magnitude of his crime.
Unfortunately, three days ago a magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck off the Pacific coast of Japan's Tohoku region.
Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding appears in its whole magnitude, and through which man can best learn how small he is.
The antagonist is simultaneously a strawman for everything the author hates and the most likeable character by several orders of magnitude.
The earthquake had a magnitude of 6 on the Richter scale.
The earthquake had a magnitude of six on the Richter scale.

Movie subtitles

Aided by an almost superhuman logic, he used his profound knowledge of hypnosis to commit crimes of a magnitude previously deemed impossible.
And the forces of the underworld, who best know how to operate outside the law are moving in on a new source of revenue, the magnitude of which no man dare guess.
Today, when our fleet is fighting on all the seven seas, this ceremony gains magnitude for it represents, for the American people, a victory.
It's a responsibility of the first magnitude.
But a bandit of great magnitude.
Dr. Morbius, a scientific find of this magnitude..has got to be under United Planet supervision.
Now I have two orders of magnitude.
Fan His Magnitude.
But you haven't seen the others, Your Magnitude.
This is a race where we should expect an accident of this magnitude.
The UN is far away. How can it gauge a strike's magnitude?
Has he shown abilities of such magnitude?
A comet, magnitude seven, dead ahead.
The danger of a feedback. The power of the magnitude that you suggest could affect our whole complex.
I have submitted to him a business proposition of such magnitude that the mention of 60,000 francs makes me laugh.
Today, when our fleet is fighting on all the seven seas, this ceremony gains magnitude. for it represents a victory.
Exactement. lt's a responsibility of the first magnitude.
But a bandit of great magnitude. - So says commissioner Matelot.
Dr. Morbius, a scientific find of this magnitude has got to be under United Planets supervision.
It wouldn't be right to run out on a debt of this magnitude.
A comet, magnitude 7, dead ahead.
Iron-silica body. Planet size: Magnitude 1 E.
That was a fourth-magnitude sun.
It is a bond wherewith the savage man may charm the outward hatchments of his soul and soothe the troubled breast into a magnitude of quiet.
I see life's greatness, wealth and magnitude.
You gentlemen realize the magnitude of this job?
An earthquake of the first magnitude.
How can it gauge a strike's magnitude?
Could a storm of such magnitude cause a power surge in the transporter circuits, creating a momentary interdimensional contact with a parallel universe?
That a single creature, a humanoid, could be responsible for an effect of such magnitude?
Planet size: Magnitude 1 E.
A star of this magnitude going nova deflects meteorites with a mass of 200 tons each.
However, it is matching each manoeuvre we execute and I am receiving increasing magnitude of energy.

News and current affairs

The data are uncertain: there have been many thousands of spills during this period - often poorly documented and their magnitude hidden or simply unmeasured by either the companies or the government.
It will be years before the full magnitude of President Bush's deception is apparent.
I do not believe it is right to make a change of such magnitude without specifically consulting the people on whose behalf we govern.
Of course, excuses are at hand: the magnitude of the economic downturn was not anticipated and the increased expenditures to fight terrorism could not be foretold.
But, as with any change of such magnitude, there are holdouts.
Given the magnitude of the threat to the world's coral reefs, the international community's response has been frighteningly slow.
Thus, the magnitude of subsidies needed in a decade or two will be lower than they are today.
Their models, taken literally, sometimes suggested that a crisis of this magnitude couldn't happen.
Fortunately, such efforts have usually been too small in magnitude to do significant economic destruction.
At Fukushima, the reactors withstood a magnitude 9.0 earthquake - far more powerful than they were designed to tolerate.
To estimate the magnitude of the problem, it is compared to the total resources available to fix it.
Yet it is difficult to overstate the magnitude of the gain since 1900: in that year, life expectancy worldwide was 32 years, compared to 69 now (and a projection of 76 years in 2050).
The first is simple incompetence: Bush and his inner circle simply do not understand the magnitude and importance of the federal government's other fiscal problems.
LONDON - Very soon after the magnitude of the 2008 financial crisis became clear, a lively debate began about whether central banks and regulators could - and should - have done more to head it off.
The magnitude of the fiscal adjustment effort being demanded of Greece is now well known.
The significance of the earthquake and tsunami of 2011 is not the relatively low magnitude of Japan's direct impact on the broader global economy.
MILAN - The global economy's most striking feature nowadays is the magnitude and interconnectedness of the macro risks that it faces.
In February 2011, almost 200 people died when a 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck Christchurch, New Zealand.
The dot-com bubble of the late 1990s was a misestimate of the timing, not the magnitude, of the digital revolution.
Alas, India's voice was drowned out, not by China's attempts to provide medicine and education to Africa, but by the sheer magnitude of Chinese state-owned enterprises' investments in physical infrastructure.
But the magnitude of domestic challenges that Japan faces nowadays seems too great for its political leaders to play a proactive international role.
But the reality is that the two issues are connected and the magnitude of the disaster has been made worse by the junta's single-minded objective of preserving its power.

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