"magnification" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˌmæɡnɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/ [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vininn126-magnification.wav Forms: magnifications [plural]
Rhymes: -eɪʃən Etymology: From magnify + -ification. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|magnify|ification}} magnify + -ification Head templates: {{en-noun|-|s}} magnification (usually uncountable, plural magnifications)
  1. The act of magnifying; enlargement; exaggeration. Tags: uncountable, usually Translations (act of magnifying): увеличение (uveličenie) [neuter] (Bulgarian), suurennus (Finnish), suurentaminen (Finnish), suurentelu (english: exaggeration) (Finnish), agrandissement [masculine] (French), Vergrößerung [feminine] (German), magnificazione [feminine] (Italian), forstørrelse [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), powiększanie [neuter] (Polish), mărire [feminine] (Romanian), увеличе́ние (uveličénije) [neuter] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-magnification-en-noun-3uLzwuJc Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ification, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 38 47 14 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ification: 32 38 31 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 36 39 25 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 34 36 30 Disambiguation of Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations: 23 36 41 Disambiguation of 'act of magnifying': 91 9 0
  2. The apparent enlargement of an object in an image, for example using a lens, or by zooming in on a computer. Tags: uncountable, usually Translations (apparent enlargement): увеличение (uveličenie) [neuter] (Bulgarian), suurennus (Finnish), Vergrößerung [feminine] (German), ingrandimento [masculine] (Italian), forstørrelse [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), powiększenie [neuter] (Polish), увеличе́ние (uveličénije) [neuter] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-magnification-en-noun-HzpfEJcq Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ification, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 38 47 14 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ification: 32 38 31 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 24 49 27 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 36 39 25 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 34 36 30 Disambiguation of Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations: 23 36 41 Disambiguation of 'apparent enlargement': 38 61 2
  3. Amplification. Tags: uncountable, usually
    Sense id: en-magnification-en-noun-Bi8H30JQ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ification, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Romanian translations, Terms with Russian translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 38 47 14 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ification: 32 38 31 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 36 39 25 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 34 36 30 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 24 31 45 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 24 31 45 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 26 32 42 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 25 31 44 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 25 31 44 Disambiguation of Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations: 23 36 41 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 25 32 43 Disambiguation of Terms with Romanian translations: 24 31 45 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 25 31 44
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: biomagnification, demagnification, overmagnification, remagnification

Inflected forms

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          "_dis1": "91 9 0",
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      "sense": "apparent enlargement",
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      "sense": "apparent enlargement",
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      "word": "увеличе́ние"
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.