We found 38 examples of how to use magnitude in an English sentence.
Sentences 1 to 25 of 38.
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| 1. | The absolute brightness or magnitude of an object is the apparent brightness or magnitude it would have if it were located exactly 10 parsecs away. | |
| 2. | An earthquake of magnitude 5 shook Tokyo. | |
| 3. | I've never seen a pearl of such magnitude! | |
| 4. | This oil field used to produce an order of magnitude more oil as it does now. | |
| 5. | I hadn't realized the magnitude of the problems. | |
| 6. | He realized the magnitude of his crime. | |
| 7. | A massive earthquake of magnitude 8.8 hit the Japanese islands today. | |
| 8. | The Japan Meteorological Agency has revised the magnitude of the eastern Japan quake from 8.8 to 9.0, the largest recorded in world history. | |
| 9. | Unfortunately, three days ago a magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck off the Pacific coast of Japan's Tohoku region. | |
| 10. | Five tremors in excess of magnitude 5.0 on the Richter scale have shaken Japan just this week, but scientists are warning that the largest expected aftershock has yet to hit. | |
| 11. | Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding appears in its whole magnitude, and through which man can best learn how small he is. | |
| 12. | This symbol is intended to alert the user to the presence of uninsulated "dangerous voltage" within the product's enclosure that may be of sufficient magnitude to constitute a risk of electric shock to persons. | |
| 13. | You need to understand the magnitude of the problem. | |
| 14. | The antagonist is simultaneously a strawman for everything the author hates and the most likeable character by several orders of magnitude. | |
| 15. | A tsunami warning has been issued in Chile after a magnitude 8.0 earthquake struck 49 miles off the coast. | |
| 16. | Mathematics would certainly not have come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly straight line, no actual circle, no absolute magnitude. | |
| 17. | Dan couldn't understand the magnitude of what had taken place. | |
| 18. | The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center has issued a tsunami warning after an 8.3 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Chile. | |
| 19. | When one body exerts a force on a second body, the second body simultaneously exerts a force equal in magnitude and opposite in direction on the first body. | |
| 20. | A force is a vector quantity so a force has both a magnitude and a direction. | |
| 21. | The magnitude of the lift depends on several factors including the shape, size, and velocity of the aircraft. | |
| 22. | Like lift, there are many factors that affect the magnitude of the drag force including the shape of the aircraft, the "stickiness" of the air, and the velocity of the aircraft. | |
| 23. | A vector quantity has two characteristics, a magnitude and a direction. | |
| 24. | When comparing two vector quantities of the same type, you have to compare both the magnitude and the direction. | |
| 25. | The magnitude of the force acting over a small section of an object immersed in a fluid equals the pressure p times the area A of the section. |