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magnifying glasses

magnifying glasses is the plural of magnifying glass.

Meaning of magnifying glass

Noun

magnifying glass (plural magnifying glasses)

  1. An instrument made of convex glass, used to magnify.
    • The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone, essentially what today we might term a frameless magnifying glass or plain glass paperweight.2013 September-October, Henry Petroski, “The Evolution of Eyeglasses”, in American Scientist

Questions about magnifying glasses

What is magnifying glasses the plural of?
Magnifying glasses is the plural of magnifying glass.

Words near magnifying glasses in the dictionary

  1. magnifies
  2. magniflorine
  3. magnify
  4. magnifying
  5. magnifying glass
  6. magnifying glasses
  7. magniloquence
  8. magniloquences
  9. magniloquency
  10. magniloquent
  11. magniloquently

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