English words for 'excessive magnification'
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noun
- (optics) An aberration that causes magnification to change over the field of view.
- An act of distorting.
- A misrepresentation of the truth.
- A result of distorting.
- Noise or other artifacts caused in the electronic reproduction of sound or music.
- An effect used in music, most commonly on guitars in rock or metal.
- the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean
- an optical phenomenon resulting from the failure of a lens or mirror to produce a good image
- a shape resulting from distortion
- a change for the worse
- a change (usually undesired) in the waveform of an acoustic or analog electrical signal; the difference between two measurements of a signal (as between the input and output signal)
- the mistake of misrepresenting the facts
adj
- (used of microscopes) capable of a high degree of magnification
- (optics) Of an instrument, capable of great magnification.
- vigorously energetic or forceful
- (weaponry) Of a weapon, of a caliber or power that exceeds the typical threshold.
- Vigorous and energetic.
- Possessing great physical or political power.
noun
- The apparent enlargement of an object in an image, for example using a lens, or by zooming in on a computer.
- The act of magnifying; enlargement; exaggeration.
- Amplification.
- a photographic print that has been enlarged
- making to seem more important than it really is
- the act of expanding something in apparent size
- the ratio of the size of an image to the size of the object
noun
- a camera lens that magnifies the image
- (photography) A lens which produces a magnified view of distant objects and which is sufficiently compact to have a physical length shorter than its focal length (as distinct from a long-focus lens).
- (photography) A lens having a long focal length which produces a magnified view of distant objects.
verb
- (transitive) To make (something) appear larger by means of a lens, magnifying glass, telescope etc.
- (transitive) To praise, glorify (someone or something, especially God).
- (transitive) To make (someone or something) appear greater or more important than it is; to intensify, exaggerate.
- (transitive) To make (something) larger or more important.
- make large
- to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth
- increase in size, volume or significance
noun
verb
- (photography) To change the focal length of a zoom lens.
- (transitive) To check someone out; to investigate someone that one is interested in.
- (aviation) To zoom climb.
- To manipulate a display so as to magnify or shrink it.
- To move rapidly.
- To participate in a video teleconferencing call.
- To move fast with a humming noise.
- To go up sharply.
- move along very quickly
- move with a low humming noise
- rise rapidly
intj
noun
- The strength by which a lens or mirror magnifies an optical image.
- (biblical, in the plural) In Christian angelology, an intermediate level of angels, ranked above archangels, but exact position varies by classification scheme.
- (metonymic, chiefly in the plural) The people in charge of legal or political power, the government.
- Physical force or strength.
- (social) The ability to coerce, influence, or control.
- (physics) The rate at which work is done or energy is transferred, expressed in units of energy per unit of time.
- The ability to do or undergo something.
- Any of the elementary forms or parts of machines: three primary (the lever, inclined plane, and pulley) and three secondary (the wheel-and-axle, wedge, and screw).
- (colloquial, dated outside the phrase 'power of good') A large amount or number.
- (quiz bowl) A bonus point awarded for answering correctly before a certain part of the tossup is read.
- The ability or authority to control, govern, command, coerce, etc., such as in a legal, political or business sphere.
- (trucking) A tractor.
- (physics, mechanics) A measure of the effectiveness that a force producing a physical effect has over time. If linear, the quotient of: (force multiplied by the displacement of or in an object) ÷ time. If rotational, the quotient of: (force multiplied by the angle of displacement) ÷ time.
- (statistics) The probability that a statistical test will reject the null hypothesis when the alternative hypothesis is true.
- (set theory) Cardinality.
- (attributive) Designating one who does something forcefully or on a large or grand scale.
- The production or flow of energy providing means to do work; energy per time unit.
- (metonymic) A strong or influential nation, company, or other such body.
- (countable) The ability to affect or influence.
- A product of equal factors (and generalizations of this notion): xⁿ, read as "x to the power of n" or the like, is called a power and denotes the product x×x×⋯×x, where x appears n times in the product; x is called the base and n the exponent.
- (specifically) Electricity or a supply of electricity.
- a mathematical notation indicating the number of times a quantity is multiplied by itself
- energy made available by the flow of electric charge through a conductor
- (of a government or government official) holding an office means being in power
- a state powerful enough to influence events throughout the world
- one possessing or exercising power or influence or authority
- physical strength
- (physics) the rate of doing work; measured in watts (= joules/second)
- possession of controlling influence
- a very wealthy or powerful businessperson
- possession of the qualities (especially mental qualities) required to do something or get something done
adj
intj
verb
noun
- a magnifier of images of distant objects
- the state of the environment in which a situation exists
- an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control:
- electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities
- (linguistics) The region of an utterance to which some modifying element applies.
- (programming) The region of program source code in which a given identifier is meaningful, or a given object can be accessed.
- The breadth, depth or reach of a subject; the extent of applicability or relevance; a domain, purview or remit.
- (weaponry) A device used in aiming a projectile, through which the person aiming looks at the intended target.
- (logic) The shortest sub-wff of which a given instance of a logical connective is a part.
- Potential range of action; degree of freedom; opportunity.
- (medicine, colloquial) Any medical procedure that ends in the suffix -scopy, such as endoscopy, colonoscopy, bronchoscopy, etc.
- Ellipsis of any word ending in -scope, such as endoscope, periscope, telescope, microscope, oscilloscope, and so on.
verb
- To define the scope of something.
- (informal) To examine under a microscope.
- (programming) To limit (an object or variable) to a certain region of program source code.
- (birdwatching, informal) To observe a bird using a spotting scope.
- (medicine, colloquial) To perform any medical procedure that ends in the suffix -scopy, such as endoscopy, colonoscopy, bronchoscopy, etc.
- (informal, transitive) To perform a cursory investigation of; scope out.
noun
- a magnifier of images of distant objects
- (television) A retractable tubular support for lights.
- A kind of goldfish with protruding eyes, first bred in China.
- Any instrument used in astronomy for observing distant objects (such as a radio telescope).
- A monocular optical instrument that magnifies distant objects, especially in astronomy.
verb
- make smaller or shorter
- crush together or collapse
- (ambitransitive, mathematics, of a series) To collapse, via cancellation.
- (ambitransitive) To slide or pass one within another, after the manner of the sections of a small telescope or spyglass.
- (ambitransitive) To extend or contract in the manner of a telescope.
- (intransitive) To come into collision, as railway cars, in such a manner that one runs into another.
verb
- (photography) To increase the aperture of a photographic lens, moving from an f/stop represented by a higher number to an f/stop represented by a lower number and causing more light to pass into the camera.
- To fill a hole or cavity, or block (an opening or passage), as with a plug.
- (UK, law) To permanently close or block (a road or path); to legally extinguish a right of way.
- fill or close tightly with or as if with a plug
noun
- the act of expanding an aperture
- a lengthy discussion (spoken or written) on a particular topic
- The act of dilating.
- State of being dilated; expansion; dilatation.
- (mathematics) In morphology, a basic operation (denoted ⊕) that usually uses a structuring element for probing and expanding the shapes contained in the input image.
verb
- (transitive, photography) To intensify by a second process.
- (software, transitive) To reprogram (an app).
- (transitive) To convert a neighbourhood by demolishing old buildings and building new ones, or by renovating existing ones.
- change the plans for the use of (land)
- formulate or develop again, of an improved theory or hypothesis
- develop for a second time, in order to improve the contrast, colour, etc., of a negative or print
adj
noun
- A lens that enlarges the field of vision.
- (music) A portable encasement that houses a large speaker, used to amplify voices and musical instruments at live performances.
- (electronics) An appliance or circuit that increases the strength of a weak electrical signal without changing the other characteristics of the signal.
- Anything that amplifies, or makes something larger or more intense.
- (linguistics) An adverb that adds intensity, such as "really" or "totally".
- electronic equipment that increases strength of signals passing through it
noun
- a quality characterized by magnificence of scale or the tendency to expand
- a friendly open trait of a talkative person
- the fractional change in length or area or volume per unit change in temperature at a given constant pressure
- expansiveness
- (mathematics) The formal notion of points moving away from one another under the action of an iterated function.
noun
- a camera lens having a wider than normal angle of view (and usually a short focal length); produces an image that is foreshortened in the center and increasingly distorted in the periphery
- (photography) A wide-angle lens having an extremely wide field of view (approaching or exceeding 180 degrees) and producing images that are circular or distorted by curvature at the edges.
noun
- the apparent enlargement of a bright object when viewed against a dark background
- (physiology) the spread of sensory neural impulses in the cortex
- (medicine) the treatment of disease (especially cancer) by exposure to a radioactive substance
- the condition of being exposed to radiation
- a column of light (as from a beacon)
- (Pavolvian conditioning) the elicitation of a conditioned response by stimulation similar but not identical to the original stimulus
- (uncountable) a process of sterilization whereby radiation is passed through a bag containing food, utensils, etc., to sterilize the contents.
- Synonym of radiotherapy.
noun
- (optics) An aberration that causes magnification to change over the field of view.
- An act of distorting.
- A misrepresentation of the truth.
- A result of distorting.
- Noise or other artifacts caused in the electronic reproduction of sound or music.
- An effect used in music, most commonly on guitars in rock or metal.
- the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean
- an optical phenomenon resulting from the failure of a lens or mirror to produce a good image
- a shape resulting from distortion
- a change for the worse
- a change (usually undesired) in the waveform of an acoustic or analog electrical signal; the difference between two measurements of a signal (as between the input and output signal)
- the mistake of misrepresenting the facts
noun
- The apparent enlargement of an object in an image, for example using a lens, or by zooming in on a computer.
- The act of magnifying; enlargement; exaggeration.
- Amplification.
- a photographic print that has been enlarged
- making to seem more important than it really is
- the act of expanding something in apparent size
- the ratio of the size of an image to the size of the object
noun
- a camera lens that magnifies the image
- (photography) A lens which produces a magnified view of distant objects and which is sufficiently compact to have a physical length shorter than its focal length (as distinct from a long-focus lens).
- (photography) A lens having a long focal length which produces a magnified view of distant objects.
noun
verb
- (photography) To change the focal length of a zoom lens.
- (transitive) To check someone out; to investigate someone that one is interested in.
- (aviation) To zoom climb.
- To manipulate a display so as to magnify or shrink it.
- To move rapidly.
- To participate in a video teleconferencing call.
- To move fast with a humming noise.
- To go up sharply.
- move along very quickly
- move with a low humming noise
- rise rapidly
intj
noun
- The strength by which a lens or mirror magnifies an optical image.
- (biblical, in the plural) In Christian angelology, an intermediate level of angels, ranked above archangels, but exact position varies by classification scheme.
- (metonymic, chiefly in the plural) The people in charge of legal or political power, the government.
- Physical force or strength.
- (social) The ability to coerce, influence, or control.
- (physics) The rate at which work is done or energy is transferred, expressed in units of energy per unit of time.
- The ability to do or undergo something.
- Any of the elementary forms or parts of machines: three primary (the lever, inclined plane, and pulley) and three secondary (the wheel-and-axle, wedge, and screw).
- (colloquial, dated outside the phrase 'power of good') A large amount or number.
- (quiz bowl) A bonus point awarded for answering correctly before a certain part of the tossup is read.
- The ability or authority to control, govern, command, coerce, etc., such as in a legal, political or business sphere.
- (trucking) A tractor.
- (physics, mechanics) A measure of the effectiveness that a force producing a physical effect has over time. If linear, the quotient of: (force multiplied by the displacement of or in an object) ÷ time. If rotational, the quotient of: (force multiplied by the angle of displacement) ÷ time.
- (statistics) The probability that a statistical test will reject the null hypothesis when the alternative hypothesis is true.
- (set theory) Cardinality.
- (attributive) Designating one who does something forcefully or on a large or grand scale.
- The production or flow of energy providing means to do work; energy per time unit.
- (metonymic) A strong or influential nation, company, or other such body.
- (countable) The ability to affect or influence.
- A product of equal factors (and generalizations of this notion): xⁿ, read as "x to the power of n" or the like, is called a power and denotes the product x×x×⋯×x, where x appears n times in the product; x is called the base and n the exponent.
- (specifically) Electricity or a supply of electricity.
- a mathematical notation indicating the number of times a quantity is multiplied by itself
- energy made available by the flow of electric charge through a conductor
- (of a government or government official) holding an office means being in power
- a state powerful enough to influence events throughout the world
- one possessing or exercising power or influence or authority
- physical strength
- (physics) the rate of doing work; measured in watts (= joules/second)
- possession of controlling influence
- a very wealthy or powerful businessperson
- possession of the qualities (especially mental qualities) required to do something or get something done
adj
intj
verb
noun
- a magnifier of images of distant objects
- the state of the environment in which a situation exists
- an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control:
- electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities
- (linguistics) The region of an utterance to which some modifying element applies.
- (programming) The region of program source code in which a given identifier is meaningful, or a given object can be accessed.
- The breadth, depth or reach of a subject; the extent of applicability or relevance; a domain, purview or remit.
- (weaponry) A device used in aiming a projectile, through which the person aiming looks at the intended target.
- (logic) The shortest sub-wff of which a given instance of a logical connective is a part.
- Potential range of action; degree of freedom; opportunity.
- (medicine, colloquial) Any medical procedure that ends in the suffix -scopy, such as endoscopy, colonoscopy, bronchoscopy, etc.
- Ellipsis of any word ending in -scope, such as endoscope, periscope, telescope, microscope, oscilloscope, and so on.
verb
- To define the scope of something.
- (informal) To examine under a microscope.
- (programming) To limit (an object or variable) to a certain region of program source code.
- (birdwatching, informal) To observe a bird using a spotting scope.
- (medicine, colloquial) To perform any medical procedure that ends in the suffix -scopy, such as endoscopy, colonoscopy, bronchoscopy, etc.
- (informal, transitive) To perform a cursory investigation of; scope out.
noun
- a magnifier of images of distant objects
- (television) A retractable tubular support for lights.
- A kind of goldfish with protruding eyes, first bred in China.
- Any instrument used in astronomy for observing distant objects (such as a radio telescope).
- A monocular optical instrument that magnifies distant objects, especially in astronomy.
verb
- make smaller or shorter
- crush together or collapse
- (ambitransitive, mathematics, of a series) To collapse, via cancellation.
- (ambitransitive) To slide or pass one within another, after the manner of the sections of a small telescope or spyglass.
- (ambitransitive) To extend or contract in the manner of a telescope.
- (intransitive) To come into collision, as railway cars, in such a manner that one runs into another.
noun
- the act of expanding an aperture
- a lengthy discussion (spoken or written) on a particular topic
- The act of dilating.
- State of being dilated; expansion; dilatation.
- (mathematics) In morphology, a basic operation (denoted ⊕) that usually uses a structuring element for probing and expanding the shapes contained in the input image.
noun
- A lens that enlarges the field of vision.
- (music) A portable encasement that houses a large speaker, used to amplify voices and musical instruments at live performances.
- (electronics) An appliance or circuit that increases the strength of a weak electrical signal without changing the other characteristics of the signal.
- Anything that amplifies, or makes something larger or more intense.
- (linguistics) An adverb that adds intensity, such as "really" or "totally".
- electronic equipment that increases strength of signals passing through it
noun
- a quality characterized by magnificence of scale or the tendency to expand
- a friendly open trait of a talkative person
- the fractional change in length or area or volume per unit change in temperature at a given constant pressure
- expansiveness
- (mathematics) The formal notion of points moving away from one another under the action of an iterated function.
noun
- a camera lens having a wider than normal angle of view (and usually a short focal length); produces an image that is foreshortened in the center and increasingly distorted in the periphery
- (photography) A wide-angle lens having an extremely wide field of view (approaching or exceeding 180 degrees) and producing images that are circular or distorted by curvature at the edges.
noun
- the apparent enlargement of a bright object when viewed against a dark background
- (physiology) the spread of sensory neural impulses in the cortex
- (medicine) the treatment of disease (especially cancer) by exposure to a radioactive substance
- the condition of being exposed to radiation
- a column of light (as from a beacon)
- (Pavolvian conditioning) the elicitation of a conditioned response by stimulation similar but not identical to the original stimulus
- (uncountable) a process of sterilization whereby radiation is passed through a bag containing food, utensils, etc., to sterilize the contents.
- Synonym of radiotherapy.
verb
- (transitive) To make (something) appear larger by means of a lens, magnifying glass, telescope etc.
- (transitive) To praise, glorify (someone or something, especially God).
- (transitive) To make (someone or something) appear greater or more important than it is; to intensify, exaggerate.
- (transitive) To make (something) larger or more important.
- make large
- to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth
- increase in size, volume or significance
verb
- (photography) To increase the aperture of a photographic lens, moving from an f/stop represented by a higher number to an f/stop represented by a lower number and causing more light to pass into the camera.
- To fill a hole or cavity, or block (an opening or passage), as with a plug.
- (UK, law) To permanently close or block (a road or path); to legally extinguish a right of way.
- fill or close tightly with or as if with a plug
verb
- (transitive, photography) To intensify by a second process.
- (software, transitive) To reprogram (an app).
- (transitive) To convert a neighbourhood by demolishing old buildings and building new ones, or by renovating existing ones.
- change the plans for the use of (land)
- formulate or develop again, of an improved theory or hypothesis
- develop for a second time, in order to improve the contrast, colour, etc., of a negative or print
noun
verb
- (photography) To change the focal length of a zoom lens.
- (transitive) To check someone out; to investigate someone that one is interested in.
- (aviation) To zoom climb.
- To manipulate a display so as to magnify or shrink it.
- To move rapidly.
- To participate in a video teleconferencing call.
- To move fast with a humming noise.
- To go up sharply.
- move along very quickly
- move with a low humming noise
- rise rapidly
intj
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adj
- (used of microscopes) capable of a high degree of magnification
- (optics) Of an instrument, capable of great magnification.
- vigorously energetic or forceful
- (weaponry) Of a weapon, of a caliber or power that exceeds the typical threshold.
- Vigorous and energetic.
- Possessing great physical or political power.