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Definition of Magnitudes
1. magnitude [n] - See also: magnitude
Lexicographical Neighbors of Magnitudes
Literary usage of Magnitudes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. On Intelligence by Hippolyte Taine (1884)
"We might demon strate in the same way a third axiom, which is true of nat ural
magnitudes as well as of artificial, that is to say, that twc magnitudes each ..."
2. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific by Astronomical Society of the Pacific (1892)
"The comparison stars employed were the following : The magnitudes of stars a,
... Accurate photometric determinations of the last eight magnitudes, ..."
3. Analytic Geometry by Lewis Parker Siceloff, George Wentworth, David Eugene Smith (1922)
"CHAPTER II GEOMETRIC magnitudes. Geometric magnitudes. Although much of our work
in geometry relates to magnitudes, the number of different kinds of ..."
4. A Text-book of General Astronomy for Colleges and Scientific Schools by Charles Augustus Young (1916)
"Star magnitudes.—The term "magnitude," as applied to a star, refers simply to
its brightness. It has nothing to do with its apparent angular diameter. ..."
5. Manual of Astronomy: A Text-book by Charles Augustus Young (1902)
"CHAPTER XIX THE LIGHT OF THE STARS The Light of the Stan—magnitudes and ...
Hipparchus and Ptolemy arbitrarily graded the visible stars into six magnitudes, ..."
6. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1890)
"The first well considered scheme for expressing the relations between stellar
magnitudes and distances was devised by FGW Struve In 1827 and it has been ..."
7. The Principles and Methods of Geometrical Optics: Especially as Applied to by James Powell Cocke Southall (1910)
"ELIMINATION OF THE magnitudes DENOTED BY ha 323. The natural determination-data
of an optical system are the radii (r) of the spherical surfaces, ..."
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