especially: a lens or combination of lenses that makes something appear larger
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the WebMany of the features to help people with vision impairment use their computers have been around for years—Narrator, screen magnifier, text size, speech recognition, and high contrast themes. Michael Muchmore, PCMAG, 7 June 2022 This screen magnifier is designed to take the image from your phone's screen and magnify it by three or four times. Charles Dryer And Collin Morgan, Car and Driver, 7 July 2022 More niche apps include a screen magnifier and GIF creator. Sascha Segan, PCMAG, 2 June 2022 In this manner, the Hubble Space Telescope exploits a natural cosmic magnifier. Joel Achenbach, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Mar. 2022 Because the meteors move so fast across such a large area, don't bother using any kind of magnifier to see them. Claire Rafford, The Indianapolis Star, 11 Aug. 2021 The one map of the entire route requires a magnifier to read the river names, and locations other than major communities are missing. Nancy Lord, Anchorage Daily News, 25 July 2021 The quarantine, said Margaret Clark, a psychology professor and director of the Clark Relationship Science Laboratory at Yale University, seemed to have served as a relationship magnifier. Jancee Dunn, New York Times, 21 May 2021 The faint magnification, predicted by the theory of general relativity, can provide insights into the passing magnifier. Nola Taylor Redd, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Sep. 2020 See More