MAGNIFIER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does magnifier mean? 

• MAGNIFIER (noun)
  The noun MAGNIFIER has 1 sense:

1. a scientific instrument that magnifies an image

  Familiarity information: MAGNIFIER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MAGNIFIER (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)