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/mˈægnəfˌaɪər/ Listen

Magnifier

noun

A scientific instrument that magnifies an image.

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"Magnifier" Quotes from Famous Books

... centrifugating at a speed of about 2400 revolutions per minute the yeasts in the solution have all been packed into the tip and the volume can then be read accurately to thousandths of a cubic centimeter (with the aid of a scale and magnifier). With a control tube containing 9 cc. of the sterile media and 1 cc. of distilled water in place of the 1 cc. of extract a comparison can be obtained which is an accurate measure of the stimulatory effect ...

— The Vitamine Manual • Walter H. Eddy

... before our eyes, and yet so delicately that we never suspect the process. The most exquisite work of literary art exhibits a certain crudeness and coarseness, when we turn to it from Nature,—as the smallest cambric needle appears rough and jagged, when compared through the magnifier with the tapering ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 8, No. 47, September, 1861 • Various

... crimping instrument while over his eyes, or rather his eye, for he kept one closed as if it had been hermetically sealed, he had lashed with half a dozen turns of spun—yarn a wooden socket, like the but—end of an opera glass, fitted with some sort of magnifier, through which he peered out ahead most intensely, stooping down, and stretching his long bare neck to its utmost reach, that he might see under the ...

— Tom Cringle's Log • Michael Scott

Words linked to "Magnifier" : magnify, scope, microscope, telescope, scientific instrument