magnification

English

Etymology

magnify +‎ -ification

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌmæɡnɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

magnification (usually uncountable, plural magnifications)

1. The act of magnifying; enlargement; exaggeration.
2. The apparent enlargement of an object in an image.

Antonyms

• minification (opposite)

Translations

act of magnifying

• Bulgarian: увеличение (bg) n (uveličenie)
• Finnish: suurennus (fi), suurentaminen (fi); suurentelu (exaggeration)
• French: agrandissement (fr) m
• German: Vergrößerung (de) f
• Italian: magnificazione f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: forstørrelse m

• Romanian: mărire (ro) f
• Russian: увеличе́ние (ru) n (uveličénije)

apparent enlargement

• Bulgarian: увеличение (bg) n (uveličenie)
• Finnish: suurennus (fi)
• German: Vergrößerung (de) f
• Italian: ingrandimento (it) m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: forstørrelse m

• Russian: увеличе́ние (ru) n (uveličénije)

See also

• magnification on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for magnification in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)