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Magnifying glass

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Noun
  1. 1
    An instrument made of convex glass, used to magnify.

    "The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone, essentially what today we might term a frameless magnifying glass or plain glass paperweight."

  2. 2
    light microscope consisting of a single convex lens that is used to produce an enlarged image wordnet

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