The meaning of MAGNITUDE is great size or extent. How to use magnitude in a sentence.
[uncountable] (formal) the great size or importance of something; the degree to which something is large or important. We did not realize the magnitude of the problem. They appear to underestimate the magnitude of such influences. We are talking about something of a different order of magnitude.
General words for size and amount (Definition of magnitude from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
Differences in magnitude are based on a logarithmic scale that matches the response of the human eye to differences in brightness so that a decrease of one magnitude represents an increase in apparent brightness by a factor of 2.512.
Magnitude is used in stating the size or extent of something such as a star, earthquake, or explosion.
(uncountable) The apparent brightness of a star, with lower magnitudes being brighter; apparent magnitude (countable) A ratio of intensity expressed as a logarithm.
dimensions: to determine the magnitude of an angle. great importance or consequence: affairs of magnitude. greatness of size or amount. moral greatness: magnitude of mind.
Illustrated definition of Magnitude: The size of something. The magnitude of a number (also called its absolute value) is its distance from...
MAGNITUDE definition: size; extent; dimensions. See examples of magnitude used in a sentence.
In mathematics, magnitude is the size of a mathematical object, a property by which the object can be compared as larger or smaller than other objects of the same kind. More formally, an object's magnitude is an ordering of the class of objects to which it belongs. mag′ni-tūd, n. greatness: size: extent: importance. [L. magnitudo — magnus.]