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magnification|ˌmægnɪfɪˈkeɪʃən|
[f. L. magnificātiōn-em, n. of action f. magnificāre: see magnify and -ation.]
The action of magnifying; the condition of being magnified.
1. The action of representing as great or greater; laudation, extolling.
1625Jackson Creed v. xxxii. §3 The distempered zeale which the one bare vnto a Moses of his owne making and magnification did empoyson his soule [etc.]. 1663Jer. Taylor Fides formata Wks. 1850 VIII. 292 Those words so often used in scripture, for the magnification of faith, ‘The just shall live by faith’. 1670G. H. Hist. Cardinals i. i. 3 Of the Rodomontadoes which the Roman Theologues write in magnification of the Pope. Ibid. 25 Loosing themselves some times in magnifications of their virtues, as false as tedious. 1802–12Bentham Ration. Judic. Evid. (1827) IV. 196 The unfeigned love and indefatigable magnification of that sham law. 1863Lytton Caxtoniana I. 60 That magnification which proverbially belongs to the unknown. 1879C. Rossetti Seek & F. 62 Frost and cold..are invoked to render blessing, praise, and magnification, to the Lord their Ordainer. 1899Q. Rev. Jan. 82 Next to the glorification of himself [Dumas], his mission was the magnification of his country.
2. The apparent enlargement of an object as seen through a lens.
1672Gregory in Rigaud Corr. Sci. Men (1841) II. 245 Neither is it probable to me that the errors of the object speculum are made more sensible (the magnification being always the same) by a concave or convex speculum and an eyeglass. c1790J. Imison Sch. Art I. 253 If the diameters be multiplied into one another, the product will express the magnification of the whole visible area. 1867J. Hogg Microsc. i. ii. 78 The Kelner eye-piece, while it increases the magnification detracts from the definition. 1881Lockyer in Nature No. 614. 319 A perfect photograph will bear a very considerable amount of magnification. 1896Allbutt's Syst. Med. I. 83 Two giant-cells seen under high magnification (×1515 diam.).
b. transf. Also quasi-concr. a magnified reproduction.
1833Coleridge Table-t. 10 Apr., America would then be..Great Britain in a state of glorious magnification! 1858Hawthorne Fr. & It. Note-bks. (1871) I. 60 They looked like a magnification of some exquisite piece of Tunbridge ware. 1874M. Arnold God & the Bible (1875) Introd. 21 Its divinities are magnifications of nothing unworthy. |