Definition of Magnitude

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Magnitude

Extent of dimensions; size; -- applied to things that have length, breath, and thickness.

That which has one or more of the three dimensions, length, breadth, and thickness.

Anything of which greater or less can be predicated, as time, weight, force, and the like.

Greatness; grandeur.

Greatness, in reference to influence or effect; importance; as, an affair of magnitude.

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Magnitude Quotations

It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.
Mother Teresa

A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.
Aristotle

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.
Thomas Paine

Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.
Arthur Schopenhauer

I couldn't help but be impressed by the magnitude of the earthquake.
Dan Quayle

Whence it follows that God is absolutely perfect, since perfection is nothing but magnitude of positive reality, in the strict sense, setting aside the limits or bounds in things which are limited.
Gottfried Leibniz

Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.
John Updike

People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.
Ovid

Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.
Hannah Arendt

In the U.S.A. or Europe there is no realistic way to estimate the type, magnitude, or probability of the risk, nor any way to narrow down the potentially affected regions.
Jurgen Habermas

Magnitude Translations

magnitude in French is pointure, grandeur
magnitude in Italian is grossezza
magnitude in Spanish is grandor, magnitud
magnitude in Swedish is storlek, vikt

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