3 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Magma \Mag"ma\, n. [L., fr. Gr. ?, fr. ? to squeeze, knead.] 1. Any crude mixture of mineral or organic matters in the state of a thin paste. --Ure. [1913 Webster] 2. (Med.) (a) A thick residuum obtained from certain substances after the fluid parts are expressed from them; the grounds which remain after treating a substance with any menstruum, as water or alcohol. (b) A salve or confection of thick consistency. --Dunglison. [1913 Webster] 3. (Geol.) (a) The molten matter within the earth, the source of the material of lava flows, dikes of eruptive rocks, etc. (b) The glassy base of an eruptive rock. [1913 Webster] 4. (Chem.) The amorphous or homogenous matrix or ground mass, as distinguished from well-defined crystals; as, the magma of porphyry. [1913 Webster] Magna Carta From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: magma n : molten rock in the earth's crust [also: {magmata} (pl)] From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]: MagmaA program used for heavy duty algebraic computation in many branches of mathematics. Magma, developed by John Cannon and associates at the University of Sydney, succeeded {Cayley}. It runs at several hundred sites. E-mail: . {Home (http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au:8000/u/magma/)}. [W. Bosma, J. Cannon and C. Playoust, The Magma algebra system I: The user language, J. Symb. Comp., 24, 3/4, 1997, 235-265]. (2000-12-21)
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