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Definition of Magnifying
1. magnify [v] - See also: magnify
Lexicographical Neighbors of Magnifying
Literary usage of Magnifying
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The California earthquake of April 18, 1906: Report of the state earthquake by Andrew Cowper Lawson, Harry Fielding Reid (1910)
"The pendulum has a more uniform magnifying power for waves of different ...
47 show the variations in magnifying powers for different periods and for ..."
2. The Microscope: Excerpts from The Museum of Science and Art by Dionysius Lardner (1856)
"In a certain sense, all magnifying-glasses may be regarded as microscopes, ...
Such an instrument, in its most simple form, consists of a magnifying lens or ..."
3. The Microscope and Its Revelations by William Benjamin Carpenter (1883)
"Determination of magnifying Power. — The last subject to be Microscopes, or, ...
The measurement of the magnifying power of Simple or Compound Microscopes ..."
4. Physics by Balfour Stewart (1877)
"From this negative the ordinary pictures or positives are afterwards taken. 72.
magnifying glasses.—A lens may be used for magnifying anything very small, ..."
5. Mirrors, Prisms and Lenses: A Text-book of Geometrical Optics by James Powell Cocke Southall (1918)
"Thus, for example, in the case of a convex lens of refracting power F used as a
magnifying glass, if the object is placed in the first focal plane, ..."
6. A Manual of Spherical and Practical Astronomy: Embracing the General by William Chauvenet (1874)
"The magnifying power depends upon the focal lengths of the object glass aiid eye
piece (Art. 7), and hence for the same telescope different eye pieces will ..."
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