magnification
Example Sentences
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So you have no field of vision, but you have incredible magnification.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026
It’s a magnification of childhood playtime, a puppet show in which the puppets have broken loose from the puppeteers.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 16, 2025
The researchers discovered several pitfalls in calibrating the magnification of cryogenic optical microscopes, which tend to have worse image distortion than microscopes operating at room temperature.
From Science Daily • Mar. 26, 2024
It appeared in Hubble’s image three times because of distortion and magnification from a massive cluster of galaxies sitting between it and Earth—an effect called gravitational lensing.
From Scientific American • Jul. 11, 2023
I decreased the magnification on the map a bit, then pulled back far enough to confirm that the northern edge of the hill ended in a cliff of sand and crumbling gravel.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
