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  2. Magnifying glass - Wikipedia

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    Magnifying glass on an arm lamp. The magnification of a magnifying glass depends upon where it is placed between the user's eye and the object being viewed, and the total distance between them. The magnifying power is equivalent to angular magnification (this should not be confused with optical power, which is a different

  3. Dome magnifier - Wikipedia

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    A dome magnifier is a dome-shaped magnifying device made of glass or acrylic plastic, used to enlarge words on a page or computer screen. They are plano-convex lenses: the flat (planar) surface is placed on the object to be magnified, and the convex (dome) surface provides the enlargement. They usually provide between 1.8× and 6× magnification.

  4. Screen magnifier - Wikipedia

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    Rendering this very page with Firefox, and magnifying its upper left corner with kmag. A screen magnifier is software that interfaces with a computer's graphical output to present enlarged screen content. By enlarging part (or all) of a screen, people with visual impairments can better see words and images.

  5. Magnification - Wikipedia

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    The postage stamp appears larger with the use of a magnifying glass. Stepwise magnification by 6% per frame into a 39-megapixel image. In the final frame, at about 170x, an image of a bystander is seen reflected in the man's cornea. Magnification is the process of enlarging the apparent size, not physical size, of something.

  6. List of XML and HTML character entity references - Wikipedia

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    In SGML, HTML and XML documents, the logical constructs known as character data and attribute values consist of sequences of characters, in which each character can manifest directly (representing itself), or can be represented by a series of characters called a character reference, of which there are two types: a numeric character reference and a character entity reference.

  7. Micrographia - Wikipedia

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    Micrographia: or Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses. With Observations and Inquiries Thereupon is a historically significant book by Robert Hooke about his observations through various lenses. It was the first book to include illustrations of insects and plants as seen through microscopes.

  8. Optical microscope - Wikipedia

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    Scientist using an optical microscope in a laboratory. The optical microscope, also referred to as a light microscope, is a type of microscope that commonly uses visible light and a system of lenses to generate magnified images of small objects.

  9. Magnifier (Windows) - Wikipedia

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    Magnifier, formerly Microsoft Magnifier, [1] [2] [3] is a screen magnifier app intended for visually impaired people to use when running Microsoft Windows.When it is running, it creates a bar at the top of the screen that greatly magnifies where the mouse is.