magnifying glass
- n light microscope consisting of a single convex lens that is used to produce an enlarged image
magniloquence
- n high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation
magnitude
- n the property of relative size or extent (whether large or small)
they tried to predict the magnitude of the explosion
about the magnitude of a small pea - n a number assigned to the ratio of two quantities; two quantities are of the same order of magnitude if one is less than 10 times as large as the other; the number of magnitudes that the quantities differ is specified to within a power of 10
- n relative importance
a problem of the first magnitude