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The magnitude of a quantity (either vector or scalar) is a measure of how big it is.
It is usually encountered explicitly in the context of vectors:
If $\mathbf v$ is the vector quantity in question, then its magnitude is denoted:
- $\size {\mathbf v}$
or
- $v$
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