A male given name from Latin of mostly Scottish and Scandinavian usage. / A surname.

A knot tied similarly to a rolling hitch but with the final hitch in the opposite direction.

plural of magnus hitch

The phenomenon whereby the path of a spinning object moving through a fluid is deflected in a manner that is not observed when the object is not spinning, explained by the difference in pressure of the fluid on opposite sides of the object.

plural of Magnus effect

A cycle of years that ends in a final death, conflagration, apocalypse, or the like, and the cycle begins again with a rebirth.

(chemistry, obsolete) A dark green crystalline salt, consisting of ammonia united with certain chlorides of platinum.

In certain conditions, a spinning ball deflects in a direction contrasting to that predicted direction by the Magnus effect.

(mineralogy) An isometric-hexoctahedral mineral containing arsenic, chlorine, hydrogen, manganese, and oxygen.

A surname.