magnifying glass

magnifying glass

noun
a lens that produces an enlarged image of an object.
Compare hand lens.


Origin:
1655–65

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magnifying glass or magnifier
 
n
a convex lens used to produce an enlarged image of an object
 
magnifier or magnifier
 
n

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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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