ALL meanings of magnum
mag·num
M m - noun Technical meaning of magnum A database language for DEC-10's, used internally by Tymshare, Inc.. MAGNUM was designed in the late 1970's by Dale Jordan, Rich Strauss and Dave McQuoid originally, and was written in BLISS-10. It was the world's first commercial relational database. It was in the process of being written in 1976. 1
- noun magnum a large wine bottle having a capacity of two ordinary bottles or 1.5 liters (1.6 quarts). 1
- noun magnum a magnum cartridge or firearm. 1
- adjective magnum (of a cartridge) equipped with a larger charge than other cartridges of the same size. 1
- adjective magnum (of a firearm) using such a cartridge. 1
- adjective magnum Informal. unusually great in power or size: a magnum spotlight; a magnum dosage. 1
- noun magnum 1.5-litre wine bottle 1
- adjective magnum explosives cartridge 1
- adjective magnum gun: using magnum cartridge 1
- noun magnum A thing of a type that is larger than normal, in particular. 1
- countable noun magnum A magnum is a wine bottle holding the equivalent of two normal bottles, approximately 1.5 litres. 0
- noun magnum a wine bottle holding the equivalent of two normal bottles (approximately 52 fluid ounces) 0
- noun magnum a wine bottle holding about 1.5 liters, about twice as much as the usual bottle 0
- noun magnum a firearm, esp. a revolver, designed to fire magnum cartridges 0
- adjective magnum of or pertaining to a cartridge having more explosive force than an ordinary cartridge of its size would 0