MAGNITUDE

noun greatness; grandeur.

2. magnitude ·noun that which has one or more of the three dimensions, length, breadth, and thickness.

3. magnitude ·noun greatness, in reference to influence or effect; importance; as, an affair of magnitude.

4. magnitude ·noun extent of dimensions; size;

— applied to things that have length, breath, and thickness.

5. magnitude ·noun anything of which greater or less can be predicated, as time, weight, force, and the like.