WordNet Dictionary
Webster's 1913 Dictionary\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 DictionaryA 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.