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Princeton's WordNet

  1. enlargernoun

    photographic equipment consisting of an optical projector used to enlarge a photograph

GCIDE

  1. Enlargernoun

    (Photography) an optical device for making copies of photographs larger than the original, having a head for holding the original, a source of illumination to project the image, and a bed for holding the sensitized photographic paper which will received the larger image.

Wiktionary

  1. enlargernoun

    An optical device used to make enlarged prints from a photographic negative

  2. enlargernoun

    Any device that makes something bigger, or appear bigger.

    a penis enlarger.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Enlargernoun

    Amplifier; one that encreases or dilates any thing.

    Etymology: from enlarge.

    We shall not contentiously rejoin, but confer what is in us unto his name and honour, ready to be swallowed in any worthy enlarger. Thomas Browne, Vulgar Errours.

Wikipedia

  1. Enlarger

    An enlarger is a specialized transparency projector used to produce photographic prints from film or glass negatives, or from transparencies.

ChatGPT

  1. enlarger

    An enlarger is a specialist device used in photography, specifically in a darkroom, to project and enlarge a photographic film or a photographic plate onto a sensitized photographic paper, in order to produce a full-sized print. It allows for adjustment of focus, intensity, and duration of light to control the exposure, contrast, and details of the print.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Enlargernoun

    one that enlarges

Wikidata

  1. Enlarger

    An enlarger is a specialized transparency projector used to produce photographic prints from film or glass negatives using the gelatin silver process, or from transparencies.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of enlarger in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of enlarger in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

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