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magnification |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Magnification \Mag`ni*fi*ca"tion\, n. The act of magnifying; enlargement; exaggeration. [R.] From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: magnification n 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 [syn: {exaggeration}, {overstatement}] [ant: {understatement}] 4: a photographic print that has been enlarged [syn: {enlargement}]
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