Hypertext Webster Gateway: "magnification"
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) 1.7 (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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