0 a piece of curved glass that makes objects look larger than they are:
He uses a magnifying glass to read tiny print.
1 a special piece of glass, usually with a handle, that you hold over an object in order to make it appear larger
Self-concept change and self-presentation : the looking glass self is also a magnifying glass.
Seeds were observed daily in dim light through a magnifying glass with a scale.
The idea of investigating exceptional humans was regarded as a magnifying glass for understanding human nature.
He brings a magnifying glass to the complexities obscured by existing models.
While the expert watched the louse through his magnifying glass, he himself, reduced to a part of an apparatus, was watched by the seeing eye of the supervisor.
Once in the laboratory the material was sorted with the help of a magnifying glass and the diaspores were preserved in 70% alcohol for later identification.
The original edition might have been criticized for its unwieldy size but there are a few of the maps with detail which now need a magnifying glass to see clearly.
We shall not look through a magnifying glass at every tiny error which they might have made.