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magnifier|ˈmægnɪfaɪə(r)|
[f. magnify v. + -er1.]
1. One who or something which magnifies.
1550J. Coke Eng. & Fr. Heralds v. (1877) 58 The Frenchemen be great braggers, bosters, and mangnifyers of them selves. 1570–6Lambarde Peramb. Kent (1826) 281 These Monks were marveylous and monstruous magnifiers, of such deceivable trumperie. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. ii. ii. vi. iv. (1676) 189 Mens hilaris, requies, moderata diæta.. is a great magnifier of honest mirth. a1763Shenstone Ess. (1806) 238 Imagination is a great magnifier and causes the hopes we conceive to grow too large for their object.
2. A lens or combination of lenses used to increase the apparent size of objects.
1665Boyle Exp. Hist. Cold ix. 249 One of our Microscopes..has been counted..as good a Magnifier, as perhaps any is in the world. 1759Knight in Phil. Trans. LI. 296 Some of them, when viewed with a microscope, required a third or fourth magnifier to see them distinctly. 1830Herschel Stud. Nat. Phil. 297 No examination with magnifiers is..sufficient to detect the ingredients. 1856Kane Arct. Expl. I. xiii. 144 We barely succeeded by magnifiers in reading the verniers.
fig.1791Washington Lett. Writ. 1892 XII. 56 Each of whom..looking through a magnifier, would speak of the greatest extent to which there was any probability of their numbers reaching. 1813Examiner 22 Mar. 186/2 His Lordship may be permitted to examine the gallant Chieftain's actions through a magnifier. 1818Hazlitt Eng. Poets iv. (1870) 95 The wrong end of the magnifier is, to be sure, held to everything. |