magnification
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So you have no field of vision, but you have incredible magnification.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026
The researchers discovered several pitfalls in calibrating the magnification of cryogenic optical microscopes, which tend to have worse image distortion than microscopes operating at room temperature.
From Science Daily • Mar. 26, 2024
It appeared in Hubble’s image three times because of distortion and magnification from a massive cluster of galaxies sitting between it and Earth—an effect called gravitational lensing.
From Scientific American • Jul. 11, 2023
“The scrutiny, the magnification of mistakes. It’s a torture test.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 25, 2023
“You mean the other dots. Well, no beams go to them so no magnification is necessary. Really, Powell, even you ought to be able to figure these things out.”
From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov
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