magazine
Definitions
General English
- noun a large thin book with a paper cover, which is published regularly
- noun an illustrated publication which comes out regularly
Banking
- noun a special type of newspaper, usually published only weekly or monthly, often with a glossy cover and often devoted to a particular subject
Computing
- noun a number of pages in a videotext system
Construction
- A building for storage of explosives.
Electronics
- A compartment utilized for storage or for supplying a material to be used. For example, the compartment in a camera where a film cartridge or disk is placed.
Human Resources
- noun a paper, usually with pictures and printed on glossy paper, which comes out regularly, every month or every week
Information & Library Science
- noun a radio or television programme made up of several different items
- noun a container for slides to be used in an automatic projector
Media Studies
- noun a publication issued at regular intervals, usually weekly or monthly, containing articles, stories, photographs, advertisements and other features, with a page size that is usually smaller than that of a newspaper but larger than that of a book
- noun a space or compartment in a camera from which film is loaded without exposing it to light.
- noun a container designed to hold a number of photographic slides and feed them automatically through a projector
- abbreviationmag.
Military
- noun a metal or plastic ammunition container, which is fitted to a gun and is designed to feed the rounds directly into the breech
- noun a compartment in a ship, used for storing ammunition
- noun a building or compound, used for storing military supplies (such as ammunition, clothing, food, fuel, weapons, etc.)
Publishing
- noun a container on a Linotype machine which contains the matrices from which the slugs are cast
Slang
- noun a conversation, chat. Usually heard in the phrase to ‘have a mag with someone’. This sense of the word was first recorded in England in the 18th century and is said to be derived from ‘magpie’ as a synonym for or an evocation of chatter.
Origin & History of “magazine”
The original meaning of magazine, now disused, was ‘storehouse’. The word comes, via French magasin and Italian magazzino, from Arabic makhāzin, the plural of makhzan ‘store-house’ (a derivative of the verb khazana ‘store’). It was soon applied specifically to a ‘store for arms’, and the modern sense ‘journal’, first recorded in the early 18th century, goes back to a 17th-century metaphorical application to a ‘storehouse of information’.
