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MAGNIFIER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A scientific instrument that magnifies an image
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("magnifier" is a kind of...):
scientific instrument (an instrument used by scientists)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "magnifier"):
microscope (magnifier of the image of small objects)
scope; telescope (a magnifier of images of distant objects)
Derivation:
magnify (make large)
