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# magnification

noun (magnification, magnifications)

«magnification» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Making something look bigger than it really is, using a lens, microscope or zoom. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/magnification/#m1)
2. (science) How many times bigger something looks: «a magnification of ×10». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/magnification/#m2)
3. (formal) Making something seem more important or serious than it is. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/magnification/#m3)

### In the lessons

In science, microscopes and magnifying glasses have a magnification, written like «×40», meaning things look 40 times bigger. In maths, magnification links to scale and enlargement: a scale factor of 3 makes every length 3 times longer. In art and photography, zooming in is magnification. Phrases: «high magnification», «under magnification», «×100 magnification».

### Examples

- Under the microscope at ×100 magnification, we saw tiny cells. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/magnification/#x1)
- The magnifying glass has a magnification of three times. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/magnification/#x2)
- At low magnification you see the whole leaf. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/magnification/#x3)
- Higher magnification shows more detail but a smaller area. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/magnification/#x4)
- The photo of the fly was taken with strong magnification. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/magnification/#x5)
- Magnification makes a 1 mm hair look 1 cm wide at ×10. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/magnification/#x6)
- Binoculars give a magnification of about eight times. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/magnification/#x7)
- Total magnification = eyepiece magnification × objective magnification. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/magnification/#x8)

### Note

Countable and uncountable. In numbers: magnification ×10 means the image is 10 times as long and 10 times as wide as the real thing (but not 10 times the area – area grows 100 times). To find a real size, divide the image size by the magnification. Verb: magnify. Not the same as «magnitude» (size, especially of earthquakes).

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «magnification» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/magnification/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«magnification» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/magnification.html) on Mova free.