- Look up
magnitude in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Magnitude may
refer to:
Euclidean vector, a
quantity defined by both its
magnitude and its direction...
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Apparent magnitude (m) is a
measure of the
brightness of a star,
astronomical object or
other celestial objects like
artificial satellites. Its value...
- astronomy,
absolute magnitude (M) is a
measure of the
luminosity of a
celestial object on an
inverse logarithmic astronomical magnitude scale. An object's...
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Order of
magnitude is a
concept used to
discuss the
scale of
numbers in
relation to one another. Two
numbers are "within an
order of
magnitude" of each...
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Seismic magnitude scales are used to
describe the
overall strength or "size" of an earthquake.
These are
distinguished from
seismic intensity scales that...
- The
Richter scale (/ˈrɪktər/), also
called the
Richter magnitude scale, Richter's
magnitude scale, and the Gutenberg–Richter scale, is a
measure of the...
- In mathematics, the
magnitude or size of a
mathematical object is a
property which determines whether the
object is
larger or
smaller than
other objects...
- The
moment magnitude scale (MMS;
denoted explicitly with M or Mw or Mwg, and
generally implied with use of a
single M for
magnitude) is a
measure of...
- astronomy,
magnitude is a
measure of the
brightness of an object,
usually in a
defined p****band. An
imprecise but
systematic determination of the
magnitude of...
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extending the
binary numeral system to
represent signed numbers are: sign–
magnitude, ones' complement, two's complement, and
offset binary. Some of the alternative...
