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Enlarger

Enlarger \En*lar"ger\, n.

  1. One who or that which enlarges.

  2. (Photography) an optical device for making copies of photographs larger than the original, having a head for holding the original, a source of illumination to project the image, and a bed for holding the sensitized photographic paper which will received the larger image.

Wiktionary
enlarger

n. 1 (context photography English) An optical device used to make enlarged prints from a photographic negative 2 Any device that makes something bigger, or makes it appear bigger.

WordNet
enlarger

n. photographic equipment consisting of an optical projector used to enlarge a photograph

Wikipedia
Enlarger

An enlarger is a specialized transparency projector used to produce photographic prints from film or glass negatives, or from transparencies.

Usage examples of "enlarger".

But New York was just Binghamton bigger, like a little photograph put through an enlarger.

He does not possess developing trays, enlargers, a stock of photographic paper or any of the other paraphernalia he would have needed to perpetrate so elaborate a fraud.

Such enlargers of the Witch World's store of lore are Ouen and the Lady Mereth.

Mr Rothermere left her humming happily over her tanks and enlargers and went back into the house, where he poured himself a glass of port and relaxed on the big green sofa in the bay window.

It had an image enlarger in it, and when held at the right angle the picture inside could be seen clearly.