Magnum

n.	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.
	3.	A magnum pistol, or the cartridge such a pistol uses; as, he always carried a .44 magnum.
a.	1.	(Firearms) Having a larger charge than usual for a cartridge of the same caliber; - of cartridges for handgun; as, a .44 magnum cartridge.
	2.	(Firearms) Designed to use a cartridge with a larger charge than usual for handguns of the same caliber; - of handguns; as, a .44 magnum pistol.

Noun

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magnum - a large wine bottle for liquor or wine

MAGNUM - 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.

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