blowup
3
4.9
- noun
- /ˈbloʊˌʌp/
- US
:
ampliación
- Accompanying the article was a grainy blowup of a frame from the parking lot security camera.
- blowup photo
- a large blowup
- a grainy blowup
Examples
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Langwiser introduced two large blowup photographs on hard backing as her next exhibits.
Fiction book (2001) -
Have you seen that big blowup picture they have of me?
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This is a blowup of the form and samples have been passed out.
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A large blowup of the same picture Kate had in her office, the one of Kate and her mom.
Fiction book (1997) -
A huge blowup of Oriana in one of her East Indian dances made a stage of one wall.
Fiction book (1990) -
One display includes a large blowup of London after a V2 raid, showing extensive rocket damage.
Academic text (2002) -
A blowup of a seventeenth-century map of the region dominates its lobby.
Academic text (2003) -
Langwiser asked for and received permission to place two more blowup photos on the easels as exhibits.
Fiction book (2001) -
"He stared straight ahead at the faded blowup of Bogie as Sam Spade over the register.
Fiction book (2001) -
The exhibit featured a stunning blowup of the historic battle, allowing visitors to see the intricate details.
Synonyms
6
3.9
A photo made larger than the original picture
1
5.5
A printed photo made larger than the original
How Large
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Blowup comes from blow + up, like when you 'blow up' a balloon to make it bigger, where blow means 'to make larger' and up means increase. So a blowup is an enlarged photograph.