MAGNUM

magnum

(noun) a large wine bottle for liquor or wine

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

magnum (plural magnums or magna)

(wine) A bottle of wine containing 1.5 liters of fluid, double the volume of a standard bottle.

A powerful firearm cartridge, often derived from a shorter, less powerful cartridge calibre that uses the same bullet.

A handgun that fires a cartridge of this calibre; chiefly a revolver, but rarely an autoloader firing an unusually powerful calibre.

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Source: Wiktionary


Mag"num, n. Etym: [Neut. sing. of L. magnus great.]

1. A large wine bottle. They passed the magnum to one another freely. Sir W. Scott .

2. (Anat.)

Definition: A bone of the carpus at the base of the third metacarpal bone.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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