magnification

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So you have no field of vision, but you have incredible magnification.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026

Josh Bouganim, a software engineer, proposed examining both cards under 200x magnification to see if the threads in the swatches matched.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 14, 2024

This region of space was selected in part because it is located behind several galaxy clusters that create a natural magnification effect called gravitational lensing.

From Science Daily • Nov. 13, 2023

So far MOA has only detected six microlensing events that are consistent with magnification by a low-mass rogue planet, says MOA collaborator Takahiro Sumi, a professor at Osaka University, who co-authored both preprint studies.

From Scientific American • Oct. 5, 2023

These, under high magnification, turn out to be bacteria, living in symbiosis with the spirochetes and the protozoan, probably contributing enzymes that break down the cellulose.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas