MAGNUM - Definition

Pronunciation:		'magnum
WordNet Dictionary

	Definition:	[n] a large wine bottle for liquor or wine

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	See Also:	wine bottle

Products Dictionary

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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

	Definition:	\Mag"num\, n. [Neut. sing. of L. magnus great.] 1. A large wine bottle. They passed the magnum to one another freely. --Sir W. Scott. 2. (Anat.) A bone of the carpus at the base of the third metacarpal bone.

Computing Dictionary

	Definition:	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.