noun
Meaning 1
An instrument made of convex glass, used to magnify.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Phrase guide
magnifying glass
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noun
Meaning 2
light microscope consisting of a single convex lens that is used to produce an enlarged image
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the magnifying glass was invented by Roger Bacon in 1250
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: hand glass, simple microscope
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: light microscope
Narrower terms: loupe, jeweler's loupe
History
Etymology
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
116 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Albanian: thjerrëz — instrument
- Arabic: عَدَسَة مُكَبِّرَة (ʕadasat mukabbira) — instrument
- Armenian: խոշորացույց (xošoracʻuycʻ) — instrument
- Azerbaijani: lupa — instrument
- Azerbaijani: böyüdücü şüşə — instrument
- Azerbaijani: ədəcə — instrument
- Belarusian: лу́па (lúpa) — instrument
- Belarusian: павеліча́льнае шкло (pavjeličálʹnaje šklo) — instrument
- Bengali: আতশকাচ (atśokac) — instrument
- Bengali: বিবর্ধক কাচ (bibordhok kac) — instrument
- Bulgarian: лу́па (lúpa) — instrument
- Bulgarian: увеличи́телно стъкло́ (uveličítelno stǎkló) — instrument
- Burmese: မှန်ဘီလူး (hmanbhilu:) — instrument
- Burmese: သူရကန် (sura.kan) — instrument
- Catalan: lupa — instrument
- Cherokee: ᎠᏔᏃᎯᏍᏗᏍᎩ (atanohisdisgi) — instrument
- Chinese Cantonese: 放大鏡 /放大镜 (fong3 daai6 geng3) — instrument
- Eastern Min Chinese: 大頭鏡 /大头镜 (duâi-tàu-giáng) — instrument
- Chinese: 譀鏡 /𰶆镜 (zh-min-nan) — instrument
- Chinese: 譀镜 (hàm-kiàn) — instrument
- Chinese Mandarin: 放大鏡 /放大镜 (fàngdàjìng) — instrument
- Czech: lupa — instrument
- Czech: zvětšovací sklo — instrument
- Danish: lup — instrument
- Danish: forstørrelsesglas — instrument
- Dutch: vergrootglas — instrument
- Dutch: loep — instrument
- Esperanto: lupeo — instrument
- Esperanto: grandiga vitro — instrument
- Estonian: suurendusklaas — instrument
- Estonian: luup — instrument
- Finnish: suurennuslasi — instrument
- French: loupe — instrument
- French: verre grossissant — instrument
- Galician: lupa — instrument
- Georgian: ლუპა (luṗa) — instrument
- Georgian: გამადიდებელი მინა (gamadidebeli mina) — instrument
- Georgian: გამადიდებელი შუშა (gamadidebeli šuša) — instrument
- German: Lupe — instrument
- German: Vergrößerungsglas — instrument
- Hebrew: זְכוּכִית מַגְדֶּלֶת (zchuchít magdélet) — instrument
- Hindi: आवर्धक लेन्स (āvardhak lens) — instrument
- Hungarian: nagyító — instrument
- Icelandic: stækkunargler — instrument
- Ido: lupo — instrument
- Indonesian: lup — instrument
- Indonesian: kaca pembesar — instrument
- Indonesian: suryakanta — instrument
- Irish: gloine mhéadaithe — instrument
- Italian: lente d'ingrandimento — instrument
- Japanese: 虫眼鏡 (mushimegane) — instrument
- Japanese: 拡大鏡 (kakudaikyō) — instrument
- Japanese: ルーペ (rūpe) — instrument
- Kalmyk: һал шил (ğal şil) — instrument
- Kannada: ಭೂತಗನ್ನಡಿ (bhūtagannaḍi) — instrument
- Kazakh: лупа (lupa) — instrument
- Khmer: កែវពង្រីក (kaew pɔɔpŭəngriik) — instrument
- Khmer: កែវឆ្លុះ (kaew chloh) — instrument
- Korean: 돋보기 (dotbogi) — instrument
- Korean: 확대경 (hwakdaegyeong) — instrument
- Korean: 루페 (rupe) — instrument
- Kyrgyz: лупа (lupa) — instrument
- Lao: ຊີ້ນປົງ (sīn pong) — instrument
- Lao: ແວ່ນຂະຫຍາຍ (wǣn kha nyāi) — instrument
- Latvian: palielināmais stikls — instrument
- Latvian: lupa — instrument
- Lithuanian: didinamasis stiklas — instrument
- Lithuanian: lupa — instrument
- Luxembourgish: Lupp — instrument
- Macedonian: лупа (lupa) — instrument
- Macedonian: зголемувач (zgolemuvač) — instrument
- Malay: suryakanta — instrument
- Malay: kanta pembesar — instrument
- Māori: karaihe whakanui — instrument
- Mongolian: томруулагч шил (tomruulagč šil) — instrument
- Navajo: tózis yéego bee hootʼíní — instrument
- Navajo: tsésǫʼ áhánídę́ę́ʼ niiniłígíí — instrument
- Navajo: tózis ntsaago ádaʼaleʼé — instrument
- Norman: vèrre d'approche — instrument
- Norwegian Bokmål: lupe — instrument
- Norwegian Bokmål: forstørrelsesglass — instrument
- Norwegian Nynorsk: lupe — instrument
- Persian: ذرهبین (zarre-bin) — instrument
- Polish: lupa — instrument
- Polish: szkło powiększające — instrument
- Portuguese: lupa — instrument
- Portuguese: lente de aumento — instrument
- Romanian: lupă — instrument
- Russian: лу́па (lúpa) — instrument
- Russian: увеличи́тельное стекло́ (uveličítelʹnoje stekló) — instrument
- Serbo-Croatian: лупа — instrument
- Serbo-Croatian: увеличавајуће стакло — instrument
- Serbo-Croatian: lupa — instrument
- Serbo-Croatian: uveličavajuće staklo — instrument
- Slovak: lupa — instrument
- Slovak: zväčšovacie sklo — instrument
- Slovene: lupa — instrument
- Slovene: povečevalno steklo — instrument
- Lower Sorbian: lupa — instrument
- Spanish: lupa — instrument
- Swedish: förstoringsglas — instrument
- Swedish: lupp — instrument
- Tagalog: pandako — instrument
- Tajik: заррабин (zarrabin) — instrument
- Tajik: пурбин (purbin) — instrument
- Thai: แว่นขยาย (wɛ̂n-kà-yǎai) — instrument
- Tibetan: ཆེ་ཤེལ (che shel) — instrument
- Turkish: büyüteç — instrument
- Turkish: pertavsız — instrument
- Turkmen: lupa — instrument
- Ukrainian: лу́па (lúpa) — instrument
- Ukrainian: збі́льшувальне скло (zbílʹšuvalʹne sklo) — instrument
- Uzbek: lupa — instrument
- Vietnamese: kính lúp — instrument
- Vietnamese: kiếng lúp — instrument
- Welsh: chwyddwydr — instrument