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Magnification   /mˌægnəfəkˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Magnification

noun
1.
The act of expanding something in apparent size.
2.
The ratio of the size of an image to the size of the object.
3.
Making to seem more important than it really is.  Synonyms: exaggeration, overstatement.
4.
A photographic print that has been enlarged.  Synonyms: blowup, enlargement.





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"Magnification" Quotes from Famous Books



... obligation, preservation of the rights of the Church from the small to the great. 3.—What Holy Church commands preach then with diligence; what you order to each one do it yourself. 4.—As you love your own soul love the souls of all. Yours the magnification of every good [and] banishment of every evil. 5.—Be not a candle under a bushel [Luke 11:33]. Your learning without a cloud over it. Yours the healing of every host both strong and weak. 6.—Yours to judge each one according ...
— The Life of St. Mochuda of Lismore • Saint Mochuda
... again, using a diamond lens one of the warlocks handed him. It was a useful device, having about a hundred times magnification without the need for exact focusing. He stared at the jumble of fine gears, then glanced out through the open front: of the building toward the sky. There was even less of it showing than he had remembered. Most of the great dome was empty. And now there were suggestions ...
— The Sky Is Falling • Lester del Rey
... electrician in the receiving station when Axelson was radioing last week. And I noticed that the waves of sound were under a slight Doppler effect. With the immense magnification necessary for transmitting from the Moon, such deflection might be construed as a mere fan-like extension. But there was ten times the magnification one would expect from the Moon; and I calculated that ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930 • Various
... dense, smooth, compact layer impervious to moisture. 3. The lower layer of cells. In this layer new cells are continually being formed to supply those which as thin scales are cast off from the surface. 4. Section of a small vein. 9. Section of an artery. 8. Section of a lymphatic. The magnification is too low to show the smaller blood vessels. 5. One of the glands alongside of the hair which furnishes an oily secretion. 6. A sweat gland. 7. The fat of the skin. Notice that hair, hair glands and sweat glands are continuous with the surface and represent a downward extension of this. ...
— Disease and Its Causes • William Thomas Councilman
... physical stimuli. And meaning exists only with reference to a context, which is excluded by any scheme which identifies knowledge with a combination of sense-impressions. The theory, so far as educationally applied, led either to a magnification of mere physical excitations or else to a mere heaping up of ...
— Democracy and Education • John Dewey


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