Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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magnitude

/ˈmæɡnɪtjuːd/ noun

Forms magnitudes

  1. noun (uncountable, countable) The absolute or relative size, extent or importance of something.
  2. noun (countable) An order of magnitude.
  3. noun (mathematics) A number, assigned to something, such that it may be compared to others numerically
  4. noun (mathematics) Of a vector, the norm, most commonly, the two-norm.
  5. noun (uncountable) The apparent brightness of a star, with lower magnitudes being brighter; apparent magnitude
  6. noun (countable) A ratio of intensity expressed as a logarithm.
  7. noun (seismology) A measure of the energy released by an earthquake (e.g. on the Richter scale).

Synonyms

order of magnitude

Etymology

From Latin magnitūdō (“greatness, size”), magnus + -tūdō.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Extent of dimensions; size; --applied to things that have length, breath, and thickness.
  2. noun That which has one or more of the three dimensions, length, breadth, and thickness.

Etymology [L. magnitudo, from magnus great. See Master, and cf. Maxim.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “magnitude”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “magnitude” (best matches first).

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