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
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
Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.
John Updike
A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.
Hal Borland
I know my own soul, how feeble and puny it is: I know the magnitude of this ministry, and the great difficulty of the work; for more stormy billows vex the soul of the priest than the gales which disturb the sea.
John Chrysostom
When one is required to preside over the Church, and be entrusted with the care of so many souls, the whole female sex must retire before the magnitude of the task, and the majority of men also.
John Chrysostom
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
People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.
Ovid
I couldn't help but be impressed by the magnitude of the earthquake.
Dan Quayle
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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