Magnum

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Magnum \Mag"num\ (m[a^]g"n[u^]m), n. [Neut. sing. of L. magnus
     great.]
     1. A large wine bottle.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              They passed the magnum to one another freely. --Sir


                                                    W. Scott.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. (Anat.) A bone of the carpus at the base of the third
        metacarpal bone.
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     3. A magnum pistol, or the cartridge such a pistol uses; as,
        he always carried a .44 magnum.
        [PJC]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  magnum \mag"num\ (m[a^]g"n[u^]m), a.
     1. (Firearms) Having a larger charge than usual for a
        cartridge of the same caliber; -- of cartridges for
        handgun; as, a .44 magnum cartridge.
        [PJC]
  
     2. (Firearms) Designed to use a cartridge with a larger
        charge than usual for handguns of the same caliber; -- of
        handguns; as, a .44 magnum pistol.
        [PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  magnum
       n : a large wine bottle for liquor or wine

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  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.
       
          (1995-01-25)