magnitudes
- 1Plural of magnitude.
The chart lists the magnitudes of every recorded tremor that year.
Forces of widely varying magnitudes acted on the bridge during the storm.
Note
The plural belongs to the counting uses of magnitude: separate values set side by side, such as the norms of several vectors, logarithmic intensity ratios, or numbers assigned so that things can be compared. When the word means sheer size or importance, it stays singular: a crisis of this magnitude, not of these magnitudes. Things said to differ by several magnitudes differ by several orders of magnitude.
magnitudes is a form of magnitude
magnitude, noun: The size, extent, or importance of something, considered on its own or in comparison with other things. Full entry
- Forms
- magnitudemagnitudes plural
- Spelling
- magnitude → magnitudes: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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