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Definition of Magnum
1. Noun. A large wine bottle for liquor or wine.
Definition of Magnum
1. n. A large wine bottle.
Definition of Magnum
1. Noun. (wine) A bottle of wine containing 1.5 liters of fluid, double the volume of a standard bottle. ¹
2. Noun. A gun calibre larger than, or derived from, a smaller similar cartridge. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Magnum
1. a large wine bottle [n -S]
Medical Definition of Magnum
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1. A large wine bottle. "They passed the magnum to one another freely. (Sir W. Scott).
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Magnum
Literary usage of Magnum
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Quain's Elements of Anatomy by Jones Quain, Allen Thomson, George Dancer Thane (1882)
"The os magnum is the largest of the carpal bones. ... The os magnum articulates
with seven bones, viz., the scaphoid, semilunar, trapezoid, ..."
2. Hermathena by Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland) (1905)
"THE magnum NOMEN. SOME critic has said that in Lucan's famous phrase, "Stat magni
nominis umbra," the word Magni should be written with a capital letter, ..."
3. Physical anthropology of the Lenape or Delawares, and of the eastern Indians by Aleš Hrdlička (1916)
"MUNSEE CRANIA: PALATE;* LOWER JAW;** FORAMEN magnum MALES * Arranged on the basis
of the Palatal Index. ** Arranged on the basis of the height at symphysis. ..."
4. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1922)
"Lateral view of same case represented in Diagram VIII, /. semilunar and the os
magnum showed a small oblique crack in its lower border. ..."
5. The Scientific Memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley by Thomas Henry Huxley, Michael Foster (1901)
"... magnum, obtained by M. Bravard from the Eocene strata of Vaucluse, ... magnum,
in the same collection, can hardly have been less than 15 inches long. ..."
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