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Definition of Change of magnitude
1. Noun. The act of changing the amount or size of something.
Specialized synonyms: Decrease, Diminution, Reduction, Step-down, Increase, Step-up
Lexicographical Neighbors of Change Of Magnitude
Literary usage of Change of magnitude
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Capital: A Critique of Political Economy by Karl Marx (1906)
"... under these conditions, that every change of magnitude in surplus-value arises
from an inverse change of magnitude in the value of labour-power. ..."
2. Hand-books of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy by Dionysius Lardner, George Carey Foster (1878)
"Such a change of magnitude of the pupil must obviously be produced by the fibrous
structure of the iris (fig. l8l.). Now this change of magnitude of the ..."
3. The Senses and the Intellect by Alexander Bain (1874)
"... the notion of distance we thence derive is uncertain and obscure; whereas the
perception of the change of magnitude it occasions is obvious and nn- ..."
4. Rudimentary Magnetism; Being a Concise Exposition of the General Principles by William Snow Harris (1875)
"The month curves of the two periods 1841 to 1847, and 1854 to 1857, diner in
magnitude and in change of magnitude of the ordinates, and in the place and ..."
5. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society by Royal Astronomical Society (1887)
"place : " The red stars seem as liable to change of tint as to change of magnitude ;
and, although modifications of colour may have been remarked without ..."
6. Electrical Papers by Oliver Heaviside (1894)
"... change of magnitude from change of direction, by starting with a vector which
is everywhere directed the same way, and which can, therefore, ..."