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🔍 A lens tool 🖥️ Screen enlarger
magnifier

magnifier

1 4.0
A feature that enlarges part or all of the screen to make text and images easier to see
  • noun
  • /ˈmæɡnɪˌfaɪər/
  • Specialized
translation icon : ampliador
  • Select one or more from the following seven: braille, screen-reading software, audiocassette, lens (magnifier), large print, screen magnification software, and closed-circuit television (CCTV).
  • magnifier for screen
  • video magnifier

This, my friends, is the smartphone magnifier.

Examples

  • Choosing the correct video magnifier involves a number of factors.

    Academic text (2008)

  • So yeah, that's another way that you can customize your magnifier in Windows in Camstudio.

  • If it is, it may not be wise for the school district to invest a few thousand dollars in a video magnifier.

    Academic text (2008)

  • Magnifier can also track the mouse pointer and text cursor and change the color of the screen display.

    Academic text (1997)

  • One feature, called Magnifier, magnifies up to 12x in a window that can be sized up to one-half of the screen.

    Academic text (1997)

  • A video magnifier, or CCTV system, uses a stand-mounted or handheld video camera to project a magnified image onto a video monitor, television screen, or computer monitor.

    Academic text (2008)

  • The most successful products to date include text magnifiers and screen readers, Braille note takers, and document scanners with optical character recognition (OCR).

    Academic text (2012)

  • The study found that the sighted participants who used no assistive technology were "about six times as successful at completing tasks as people using screen readers and three times as successful at completing tasks as people using screen magnifiers (enlargement software)" (p. 10).

    Academic text (2008)

  • The magnifier allows users to see small text and images more clearly on their devices.

  • Many visually impaired individuals rely on a magnifier to help them read content on their screens.

How Enlarged

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magnifier
  • Specialized
1 4.0

Surface Forms

magnifier singular
magnifiers plural

Morphology

magnifier = magnify (transparent) = magnify + er

The software feature is named as an instrument that magnifies (verb + -er), following the same transparent noun formation as physical devices.

Etymology

Magnifier comes from the Latin root magnus, meaning 'great', and from the verb magnify meaning 'to make larger'. So a computer or phone magnifier is a program that makes part or all of the screen look 'greater' or bigger so you can see it.