magnum
a large wine bottle having a capacity of two ordinary bottles or 1.5 liters (1.6 quarts).
a magnum cartridge or firearm.
(of a cartridge) equipped with a larger charge than other cartridges of the same size.
(of a firearm) using such a cartridge.
Informal. unusually great in power or size: a magnum spotlight; a magnum dosage.
Origin of magnum
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The Coravin Sparkling aims to do the same for your tete de cuvee vintage champagne in regular bottles or magnums.
Holiday gifts for wine lovers: Local bottles, luxe gadgets and tasting kits | Dave McIntyre | November 18, 2021 | Washington PostGame 6 was Giannis’s magnum opus, a performance so singularly dominant that the final stat line, outrageous as it was, somehow fails to adequately convey just how thoroughly he controlled every inch of the floor.
Many modern thinkers have come to embrace Whitehead and panpsychism to varying degrees, including Bohm, whose Wholeness and the Implicate Order, his magnum opus on modern physics and the nature of reality, refers to Whitehead as an inspiration.
Paris magnum: Exhibition runs from December 12, 2014-March 28, 2015.
magnum came into being as a cooperative only two years after the conclusion of World War II.
Overall, Paris magnum reaches both too widely and too thinly in trying to convey a sense of spectrum.
magnum is an entrusted brand, with an irrefutably global reach.
Catalogue, published by Flammarion (2014), includes photographs from the magnum Photos archives and text by Éric Hazan.
He regarded his organ in St. Paul's Cathedral (rebuilt in 1899), as his magnum opus.
The Recent Revolution in Organ Building | George Laing MillerTimor, luctus, gaudium magnum, et aversio hanc impotentiam psychicam efficiunt.
Essays In Pastoral Medicine | Austin MalleyTo behold “Diana unveiled” was equivalent in alchemical terminology to attaining the magnum opus.
Devil-Worship in France | Arthur Edward WaiteBut to determine what these propositions are, is the opus magnum of the more recondite mental philosophy.
A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive | John Stuart MillThe colonel smoothed things over and it ended in a magnum of champagne being ordered.
Average Jones | Samuel Hopkins Adams
British Dictionary definitions for magnum
/ (ˈmæɡnəm) /
a wine bottle holding the equivalent of two normal bottles (approximately 52 fluid ounces)
Origin of magnum
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