Definition of "magnitudes" []

• Plural form of magnitude. (noun)

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• "Corporate sales are now plummeting in magnitudes, a reality the labels are blaming on people who share music with each other online."
• "We admit, in geometry, not only infinite magnitudes, that is to say, magnitudes greater than any assignable magnitude, but infinite magnitudes infinitely greater, the one than the other."
• "George Crabb in 1823 defined co-ordinates now dropping its hyphen as “a term applied to the absciss and ordinates when taken in connexion,” later better known as the magnitudes that determine the position of a point; geographers and navigators still later used coordinates to describe the use of longitude and latitude in locating a spot on the globe."