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What is a magnum?

What is a magnum? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (wine) A bottle size of 1.5 liters.
  2. (wine) A bottle of wine containing 1.5 liters of fluid, double the volume of a standard bottle.
  3. A firearm cartridge of a large calibre, often derived from a shorter, less powerful cartridge that uses the same bullet.
  4. A handgun that fires a cartridge of this calibre; chiefly a revolver, but rarely an autoloader firing an unusually powerful calibre.
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All the groundwork that had been laid from the late '50s onwards seemed to be synthesized by Thomson's magnum opus.
All were loaded with the bullet seated.010-inch off the rifling, in Winchester cases with CCI large rifle magnum primers.
Last Christmas, he presented each of his suite-holders and front-row seat-holders at Toyota Center with a magnum of his wine.
He brought subtle pianistic colors and fleet-fingered panache to Debussy's magnum chamber opus.
Most people know that the standard wine bottle is 75 cl in volume, and that a magnum is 1.5 litres or two bottles.
Ramshot's Enforcer is a relatively slow-burning magnum powder suitable for the.44 Mag. and other big bore wallopers.

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