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Apparent magnitude 4. Greatness; grandeur. ``With plain, heroic magnitude of
mind.' --Milton.
5. Greatness, in reference to influence or effect;
importance; as, an affair of magnitude.
The magnitude of his designs. --Bp. Horsley.
Apparent magnitude (Opt.), the angular breadth of an object
viewed as measured by the angle which it subtends at the
eye of the observer; -- called also apparent diameter.
Magnitude of a star (Astron.), the rank of a star with
respect to brightness. About twenty very bright stars are
said to be of first magnitude, the stars of the sixth
magnitude being just visible to the naked eye. Telescopic
stars are classified down to the twelfth magnitude or
lower. The scale of the magnitudes is quite arbitrary, but
by means of photometers, the classification has been made
to tenths of a magnitude.
Magnitude Magnitude Mag"ni*tude, n. [L. magnitudo, from magnus great.
See Master, and cf. Maxim.]
1. Extent of dimensions; size; -- applied to things that have
length, breath, and thickness.
Conceive those particles of bodies to be so disposed
amongst themselves, that the intervals of empty
spaces between them may be equal in magnitude to
them all. --Sir I.
Newton.
2. (Geom.) That which has one or more of the three
dimensions, length, breadth, and thickness.
3. Anything of which greater or less can be predicated, as
time, weight, force, and the like.
Magnitude of a star 4. Greatness; grandeur. ``With plain, heroic magnitude of
mind.' --Milton.
5. Greatness, in reference to influence or effect;
importance; as, an affair of magnitude.
The magnitude of his designs. --Bp. Horsley.
Apparent magnitude (Opt.), the angular breadth of an object
viewed as measured by the angle which it subtends at the
eye of the observer; -- called also apparent diameter.
Magnitude of a star (Astron.), the rank of a star with
respect to brightness. About twenty very bright stars are
said to be of first magnitude, the stars of the sixth
magnitude being just visible to the naked eye. Telescopic
stars are classified down to the twelfth magnitude or
lower. The scale of the magnitudes is quite arbitrary, but
by means of photometers, the classification has been made
to tenths of a magnitude.
