magnification
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magnification (usually uncountable, plural magnifications)
- The act of magnifying; enlargement; exaggeration.
- His story included a magnification of the events.
- The apparent enlargement of an object in an image, for example using a lens, or by zooming in on a computer.
- Amplification.
- magnification of sound
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act of magnifying
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apparent enlargement
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See also edit
- magnification on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
References edit
- “magnification”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.