noun ·Moderate ·High school level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   The act of magnifying; enlargement; exaggeration. countable, uncountable

   "His story included a magnification of the events."

2. 2
   the act of expanding something in apparent size wordnet
3. 3
   The apparent enlargement of an object in an image, for example using a lens, or by zooming in on a computer. countable, uncountable
4. 4
   a photographic print that has been enlarged wordnet
5. 5
   Amplification. countable, uncountable

   "magnification of sound"

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6. 6
   making to seem more important than it really is wordnet
7. 7
   the ratio of the size of an image to the size of the object wordnet

Synonyms

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enlargementexaggerationaccelerandoaccelerationaccoladeaddition

Antonyms

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minification

Example

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"This microscope has a 100X magnification."

Etymology

From magnify + -ification.

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