Măg'nĭ-tūde, n.
n. [O. Fr. magnitude, Sp. magnitud, It. magnitudine, Lat. magnitudo, from magnus, great.]
Sense 1. Extent of dimensions or parts; bulk; size;—applied to things that have length, breadth and thickness.
Sense 2. (Geom.) That which is extended, or which has one or more of the three dimensions, length, breadth, and thickness. Eng.
Sense 3. Any thing of which greater or less can be predicated, as time, weight, force, and the like.
Sense 4. Greatness; grandeur. “With plain, heroic magnitude of mind.” Milton.
Sense 5. Greatness, in reference to influence or effect: importance; as, in affairs of magnitude, disdain not to take counsel.