MAGNIFIED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does magnified mean? 

• MAGNIFIED (adjective)
  The adjective MAGNIFIED has 1 sense:

1. enlarged to an abnormal degree

  Familiarity information: MAGNIFIED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MAGNIFIED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Enlarged to an abnormal degree

Synonyms:

enlarged; exaggerated; magnified

Context example:

thick lenses exaggerated the size of her eyes

Similar:

increased (made greater in size or amount or degree)

 Context examples 

Identifying the magnified images of background galaxies within these clusters will help astronomers to improve their models of the distribution of both ordinary and dark matter in the galaxy cluster.

(NASA’s Hubble Looks to the Final Frontier, NASA)

The light can be highly magnified, making extremely faint and distant objects bright enough to see.

(Hubble Uncovers the Farthest Star Ever Seen, NASA)

Catherine, at any rate, heard enough to feel that in suspecting General Tilney of either murdering or shutting up his wife, she had scarcely sinned against his character, or magnified his cruelty.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

An optical instrument that uses a combination of lenses to produce magnified images of very small objects

(Microscope Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)

The magnified fluorescent images were then recorded by the sensor chip in the cell phone.

(Smartphone microscope detects nanoparticles and viruses, NIH)

But the next instant I perceived that he held a round glass in the front of it, which magnified it in this fashion.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Being a little shortsighted, Mr. Bhaer sometimes used eye glasses, and Jo had tried them once, smiling to see how they magnified the fine print of her book.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

She was stung by his words into realization of the puerility of her act, and yet she felt that he had magnified it unduly and was consequently resentful.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

A microscope is an optical instrument that uses a combination of lenses to produce magnified images of very small objects

(Microscope, NCI Thesaurus)

In this method, the light of a distant star is magnified by a closer star that happens to pass in front — if a planet is also present around the foreground star, it will further alter and distort the light of the background star.

(Newfound Frozen World Orbits in Binary Star System, NASA)