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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



... situation chart from Economics. Red line for production, green line for exports, blue for imports, sectioned vertically for the ten Viceroyalties and sub-sectioned for the Prefectures, and with the magnification and focus controls he could even get data for individual planets. He didn't bother with that, and wondered why he bothered with the charts at all. The stuff was all at least twenty days behind date, and not uniformly so, which accounted ...
— Ministry of Disturbance • Henry Beam Piper
... 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


Words linked to "Magnification" :   deception, expansion, ratio, picture, understatement, blowup, exaggeration, magnify, deceit, pic, misrepresentation, photograph, exposure, photo


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