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mag·ni·fi·ca·tion  audio  (mgn-f-kshn) KEY 

NOUN:
  1. The act of magnifying or the state of being magnified.
    1. The process of enlarging the size of something, as an optical image.
    2. Something that has been magnified; an enlarged representation, image, or model.
  3. The ratio of the size of an image to the size of an object.



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