verb

definition

To praise, glorify (someone or something, especially God).

definition

To make (something) larger or more important.

definition

To make (someone or something) appear greater or more important than it is; to intensify, exaggerate.

definition

To make (something) appear larger by means of a lens, magnifying glass, telescope etc.

definition

To have effect; to be of importance or significance.

Examples of magnifying in a Sentence

Magnifying glasses are often used for viewing three-dimensional objects.

The magnifying power is = Fle.

In magnifying glasses for direct vision the eye must always be considered.

The magnifying power is computed by the same formula as in the case of the Gregorian telescope.

This angle, therefore, divided by the magnifying power of the telescope gives the real angular distance of the centres of a double star.

With low magnifying systems and a large free object distance, ordinary good daylight is sufficient.

In this way the scale can be viewed by a microscope of much higher magnifying power than can be employed for the photographed spectrum.

Hence a wide beam demands treatment with further apparatus (usually a telescope) of high magnifying power.

In observing the bands he received them at first upon a screen of finely ground glass, upon which a magnifying lens was focused; but it soon appeared that the ground glass could be dispensed with, the diffraction pattern being viewed in the same way as the image formed by the object-glass of a telescope is viewed through the eye-piece.

If we hold a common reading lens (a magnifying lens) in front of a lamp or some other bright object and at some distance from it, and if we hold a sheet of paper vertically at a suitable distance behind the lens, we see depicted on the paper an image of the lamp. This image is inverted and perverted.

He was well acquainted with the use of magnifying glasses and suggested a kind of telescope for viewing the moon, but does not seem to have thought of applying a lens to the camera.

In experiments with magnifying glasses, and through spars, the ordinary effects of magnifying and of alteration of view are sometimes produced; sometimes they are not.

The word is also used as a unit of linear measurement of the magnifying power of a lens or microscope.

This he mentions " because the glasses in these two sorts are somewhat prismatical, a but mostly those of the first model, which could therefore bear no great charge (magnifying power)."

The magnifying power of the telescope is = Ff /ex, where F and f are respectively the focal lengths of the large and the small mirror, e the focal length of the eye-piece, and x the distance between the principal foci of the two mirrors (=Ff in the diagram) when the instrument is in adjustment for viewing distant objects.

Another form of the word, "Egotism," is really interchangeable, though in ordinary language it is often used specially (and similarly "egoism," as in George Meredith's Egoist) to describe the habit of magnifying one's self and one's achievements, or regarding all things from a selfish point of view.

A, slip as received on recorder, using ordinary relays for translating on to second cable; B, slip as received on recorder, when interpolator is used at intermediate station, for sending on to second cable; C (four cells through a line, KR=3.6), signals with recorder under ordinary conditions; D, all conditions the same as in C, but magnifying relay inserted between the end of the line and the recorder.

The magnifying power is varied by changing the lens a for another in which p has a different value.

By a scale attached to the sliding tube the magnifying power of the eye-piece was deduced, and this combined with the angle of the prism employed gave the angle measured.

Formerly, writers accounted for the Lutheran movement by so magnifying the horrors of the pre-existing regime ity of the that it appeared intolerable, and its abolition consequently inevitable.

Allowance should be made for the habit of exaggeration among the Spanish adventurers of that time, and also for the diplomacy of Cortes in magnifying his exploits to win the' favour of his king.

Less conspicuous periscopes were therefore designed, and these, in order to take in enough of the foreground, had to be provided with a magnifying as well as a reflecting system.

But his pretensions were ludicrous; he was quickly captured by the Chileans and sent back to France (1862) as a madman; and though he made one more abortive effort in 1874 to recover his "kingdom," and occupied his pen in magnifying his achievements, nobody took him seriously except a few of the deluded Indians.

The sharpness of image in Kepler's telescope is very inferior to that of the Galilean instrument, so that when a high magnifying power is required it becomes essential to increase the focal length.

The magnifying power obviously depends on the proportion of the focal length of the object-lens to that of the eye-lens, that is, magnifying power where F is the focal length of the object-lens and e that of the eye-lens.

Also the diameter of the pencil or parallel rays emerging from the eye-lens to the diameter of the object-lens inversely as, the magnifying power of the telescope.

The system consequently acts as a continuous lens, magnifying the object in a vertical direction.

The sand, which is nominally the filter, has interstices about thirty times as wide as the largest dimensions of the larger microbes; and the reason why these, and, still more, why organisms which were individually invisible under any magnifying power, and could only be detected as colonies, were arrested, was not understood.

A rumour of the new invention, which reached Venice in June 1609, sufficed to set Galileo on the track; and after one night's profound meditation on the principles of refraction, he succeeded in producing a telescope of threefold magnifying power.

There is reason to believe that the magnifying power of transparent media with convex surfaces was very early known.

When the details are no longer recognizable by the unaided eye, the magnifying glass or the simple microscope is necessary.

A normal eye will therefore see an image formed by the magnifying glass most conveniently when it is produced at a great distance, i.e.

It has mainly to be considered in connexion with powerful magnifying glasses.

If the ordinary convex lens be employed as magnifying glass, great aberrations occur even in medium magnifications.

This lens is employed in articles found in tourist resorts as a magnifying glass for miniature photographs of the locality.

By introducing a dispersive lens of flint the magnifying glass could be corrected for both chromatic and spherical aberrations.

In the middle of the day the miniature eyebrights open up and are ideally viewed through a magnifying glass.

The mouse pointer should change from a magnifying glass to a normal pointer and should let you do some quick editing before printing.

Setting fire to a tree stump one lunchtime by testing a magnifying glass.

To search click on the magnifying glass icon in the selector box.

Virtual images are often used, for example, in magnifying lenses, where the image must be viable from different angles.

The images were taken using a small magnifying lens in front of the camera lens held in place with putty.

If a slit-lamp is not available, examination is possible using a magnifying loupe and appropriate light source.

Signs In order to elicit the signs, patients should be examined using a slit lamp or magnifying loupes.

The horn would be blown into the hollow thus magnifying its sound.

Built-in magnifying lens and luminous markings for night navigation are other important features for the most demanding users.

Transformed with the goodly transformation of the transfiguration of Christ, we find ourselves made radiant by our good works, magnifying it.

Some of these are rendered unreadable without the use of a magnifying glass- surely a disincentive.

Party invitations could be designed in the shapes of magnifying glasses, butterfly nets, or explorer hats.

Choose something you're comfortable with and that has an easy layout that you can see clearly without a magnifying glass.

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