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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
magnification
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
high
▪ The larger the telescope, the more light it can collect, and the higher the magnification which can be employed.
▪ I find it difficult with × 7, fairly easy with × 8.5 and very easy with any higher magnification.
▪ And if ion-winds can also be detected from the stars, their vastly greater distances should give even higher magnifications.
▪ Some joins. such as the fine solder work required for gold filigree and granulation, can not be seen even at high magnification.
▪ But when the cross-section is viewed at high magnification, it becomes clear that different plating methods have been used.
low
▪ The pair can just about be split with × 20, but certainly not with any lower magnification.
▪ The whole of Centaurus is very rich, and well worth sweeping with a low magnification.
▪ With × 20, but not with lower magnifications, I can see individual stars in it.
▪ Very large peels or sections can be scanned at low magnifications.
▪ It appears as a dim blur with low magnification, but with × 20 I can see individual stars in it.
▪ With × 20 I have found that near maximum its colour is very clear, and it is detectable with lower magnifications.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ High-power magnification is needed to see the crystals.
▪ The mirror has triple magnification and a light.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A magnification or a diminution reveals the same pattern.
▪ Best results are obtained with magnifications of × 10 or less.
▪ Richman then took the tissues to an electron microscope, which offers powers of magnification great enough to see viruses themselves.
▪ Scott and Andrew Forman rely on magnification and a computer to help them publish Connections.
▪ The larger the telescope, the more light it can collect, and the higher the magnification which can be employed.
▪ The names of the shops can be read -some with the naked eye, others only under magnification.
▪ Users can control both magnification and contrast in seeing near as well as distant objects.
▪ With a further approximate 250-fold magnification, we are presented with the spiral depicted in Fig. 3. 5.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Magnification

Magnification \Mag`ni*fi*ca"tion\, n. The act of magnifying; enlargement; exaggeration. [R.]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
magnification

early 15c., from Late Latin magnificationem (nominative magnificatio), noun of action from past participle stem of magnificare (see magnify).

Wiktionary
magnification

n. 1 The act of magnifying; enlargement; exaggeration. 2 The apparent enlargement of an object in an image.

WordNet
magnification
  1. n. 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 [syn: exaggeration, overstatement] [ant: understatement]

  4. a photographic print that has been enlarged [syn: enlargement, blowup]

Wikipedia
Magnification

cornea Magnification is the process of enlarging something only in appearance, not in physical size. This enlargement is quantified by a calculated number also called "magnification". When this number is less than one, it refers to a reduction in size, sometimes called "minification" or "de-magnification".

Typically, magnification is related to scaling up visuals or images to be able to see more detail, increasing resolution, using microscope, printing techniques, or digital processing. In all cases, the magnification of the image does not change the perspective of the image.

Magnification (disambiguation)

Magnification is the enlargement of an image.

Magnification may also refer to:

  • Exaggeration
  • Magnification (album), an album by the rock band Yes
  • Voltage magnification of a series resonant circuit
  • Current magnification of a parallel resonant circuit
Magnification (album)

Magnification is the nineteenth studio album by the English rock band Yes, released in September 2001 on Eagle Records. Following their 2000 Masterworks Tour and the departure of keyboardist Igor Khoroshev, the remaining four members, Jon Anderson, Chris Squire, Steve Howe, and Alan White, decided to write material for a new album with added orchestral arrangements, something they also did for Time and a Word (1970). It marks the only Yes album recorded as a four-piece and without a dedicated keyboardist (although White does play piano on the album).

Magnification was not a commercial success upon its release, peaking at No. 71 on the UK Albums Chart and No. 186 on the Billboard 200. Yes toured the album with the six-month Yessymphonic Tour, playing each show with an orchestra. Magnification was reissued several times with bonus tracks. Yes returned to a five-member formation with the return of keyboardist Rick Wakeman in April 2002.

Usage examples of "magnification".

In appearance they are not very different from conventional bacteria, but at high magnification, or rather, at a relatively high magnification, the highest magnification a conventional school microscope is capable of, if you look very carefully you could see some particles inside that have regular geometric shapes.

Through the high-power magnification, the double-delta planform of the massive habitation module was easily discernible on its sweeping turn to final.

When they cleaned that off, even at the highest magnification there was no difference between the test square and the undrilled surface next to it: a perfect mirror.

The collapsar, vibrating, behaved not like a perfectly elastic ball but, rather, like a nonuniformly distorting balloon on a bounce, due to the magnification of relativistic effects.

At first sight it appears to consist of odd-shaped islands fringed by wartlike buds, but increasing the magnification reveals more of them, no two ever exactly alike, down to any level of magnitude without limit.

Dominating the farthest wall was the Great Serpent of Dorillion, a ninety-foot-long sculpture in the form of a snake, upon which the entire history of the ancient Dorillion race had been carved in tableaus so small that many of them could not be seen without artificial magnification and enhancement.

Then the camera pinnace, hovering a prudent fifty miles away, zoomed in to the limit of its magnification, and the hoop became an enormous puffy doughnut, bumpy with outside structures, and the stick swelled to an immense cylindrical shaft, festooned with spherical tanks and sporting irregular bulges.

When his vision came back, the stars were rushing toward him as the screen zoomed to the limits of magnification.

He believes that bread is alive, that the yeast Animalcula may unite in a single purposeful individual, that each Loaf is so organized, with the crust, for example, serving as skin or Carapace, the small cavities within exhibiting a strange complexity, their pale Walls, to appearance smooth, proving, upon magnification, to be made up of even smaller bubbles, and, one may presume, so forth, down to the Limits of the Invisible.

They had Shimmer, Ptah, Peg, Siss, Wubwub, a new one that looked like a man-sized bird and -- dialing up the magnification a bit more -- Yoke could even see that one of the Cappy Jane birds was holding the little beetle Josef.

On screen, with magnification, you could just see them, two sparks coasting inward in RV Trianguli's hot blue light.

The Victor was still two kilometers off Indy’s port beam, but through the magnification inherent in the ship optical sensory feed, the immense vessel loomed like a passing cliff face, with sponsons, barbettes, field projector arrays, and fairings turning hull metal into a landscape of faceted surfaces and complex topographies, with masts like forest giants, with gun ports grinning down her gundeck modules like bared teeth.

Under higher magnification, the ship's screen showed the gridworks of numerous cities, and, surprisingly more faintly, the checkerboarding of cultivation.

They are nothing more than a dirty discoloration of a dirty, discolored floor, but under magnification, Scarpetta detects a very faint blush of red.

The ugly angular shape that was Leviathan came drifting in slow motion across the screen, dragging its blue glow under magnification that was still not enough to let it be seen very clearly.