Definition of "magnifying glass" []

• A lens or combination of lenses that enlarges the image of an object. (noun)

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• "We had failed to see the clause in the ten-million-word agreement printed in type so small we needed a magnifying glass to read it."
• "An old movie poster—John Barry-more as Sherlock Holmes—hung nearby a newer one—Basil Rathbone, dressed in the close-fitting ear flapped cap known as the deerslayer, and a long gray traveling cape, a magnifying glass held up before his face."
• "He began working with a magnifying glass during his lunch-breaks as a gardener."