- the act of magnifying or the state of being magnified
- the degree to which something is magnified
- a copy, photograph, drawing, etc, of something magnified
- a measure of the ability of a lens or other optical instrument to magnify, expressed as the ratio of the size of the image to that of the object
WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2026
mag•ni•fi•ca•tion /ˌmægnəfɪˈkeɪʃən/USA pronunciation
n. the amount or power by which something may be magnified, as by a microscope: [countable]a magnification of one hundred.[uncountable]The captain ordered full magnification on the viewing screen.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026- [uncountable] the act of magnifying or the state of being magnified.
mag•ni•fi•ca•tion
(mag′nə fi kā′shən),USA pronunciation n.
- the act of magnifying or the state of being magnified.
- the power to magnify. Cf. power (def. 20a).
- a magnified image, drawing, copy, etc.
- Late Latin magnificātiōn- (stem of magnificātiō). See magnify, -fication
- 1615–25
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
magnification /ˌmæɡnɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/ n
'magnification' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
high-powered
- pebble
- power
- zoom in
- angular magnification
- barrel distortion
- biological accumulation
- biological magnification
- biomagnification
- biomagnify
- chromatic aberration
- distortion
- double star
- electron microscope
- laryngoscope
- lateral magnification
- lens
- micromanipulation
- micromethod
- microstructure
- microsurgery
- normal magnification
- pincushion distortion
- transverse magnification
- X, x
- zoom lens
- scanning tunneling microscope
- slide