magnum

[ mag-nuhm ]

/ ˈmæg nəm /

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noun

a large wine bottle having a capacity of two ordinary bottles or 1.5 liters (1.6 quarts).

a magnum cartridge or firearm.

adjective

(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.

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Origin of magnum

1780–90; <Latin, neuter of magnus large; in reference to firearms, originally used as a trademark by the Smith and Wesson Co.

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How to use magnum in a sentence

Game 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.
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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.
Electrons May Very Well Be Conscious - Issue 94: Evolving|Tam Hunt|December 30, 2020|Nautilus
Paris Magnum: Exhibition runs from December 12, 2014-March 28, 2015.
A History of Paris in 150 Photographs|Sarah Moroz|December 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Magnum came into being as a cooperative only two years after the conclusion of World War II.
A History of Paris in 150 Photographs|Sarah Moroz|December 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Overall, Paris Magnum reaches both too widely and too thinly in trying to convey a sense of spectrum.
A History of Paris in 150 Photographs|Sarah Moroz|December 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Magnum is an entrusted brand, with an irrefutably global reach.
A History of Paris in 150 Photographs|Sarah Moroz|December 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Catalogue, published by Flammarion (2014), includes photographs from the Magnum Photos archives and text by Éric Hazan.
A History of Paris in 150 Photographs|Sarah Moroz|December 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
He regarded his organ in St. Paul's Cathedral (rebuilt in 1899), as his magnum opus.
The Recent Revolution in Organ Building|George Laing Miller
Timor, luctus, gaudium magnum, et aversio hanc impotentiam psychicam efficiunt.
Essays In Pastoral Medicine|Austin Malley
To behold “Diana unveiled” was equivalent in alchemical terminology to attaining the magnum opus.
Devil-Worship in France|Arthur Edward Waite
But 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 Mill
The colonel smoothed things over and it ended in a magnum of champagne being ordered.
Average Jones|Samuel Hopkins Adams

British Dictionary definitions for magnum

magnum

/ (ˈmæɡnəm) /

noun plural -nums

a wine bottle holding the equivalent of two normal bottles (approximately 52 fluid ounces)

Word Origin for magnum

C18: from Latin: a big thing, from magnus large

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