Definition of "enlarger" [en•lar•ger]

• An optical device used to make enlarged prints from a photographic negative (noun)
• Any device that makes something bigger, or appear bigger. (noun)

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• "The dim aura of red light, the smell of different chemical baths as you poured, the brilliant sharp focused light of the enlarger as you anxiously wait to see your negative secrets come to life; these are the sensory (even sensual) aspects of my paradise lost."
• "The result might have been what Nicholson calls "a detached typology of modernist industrial design" in which the enlarger stands at the centre, strangely human in its form."
• "And as I moved all the junk off of the enlarger and found the rather elderly chemicals, I realized that I was fascinated by the idea of developing and printing my own pictures3."