magnifying glass

magnifying glass

English

A magnifying glass.

Noun

magnifying glass (plural magnifying glasses)

1. An instrument made of convex glass, used to magnify.
   • 2013 September-October, Henry Petroski, “The Evolution of Eyeglasses”, in American Scientist:

     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.

Translations

instrument

Albanian: thjerrëz (sq) f Arabic: عَدَسَة مُكَبِّرَة‎ f (ʿadasat mukabbira) Armenian: խոշորացույց (hy) (xošoracʿuycʿ) Azerbaijani: lupa, böyüdücü şüşə Belarusian: лу́па f (lúpa), павеліча́льнае шкло n (pavjeličálʹnaje šklo) Bengali: বিবর্ধক কাচ (bibôrdhôkô kac) Bulgarian: лу́па (bg) f (lúpa), увеличи́телно стъкло́ n (uveličítelno stǎkló) Burmese: မှန်ဘီလူး (my) (hmanbhilu:), သူရကန် (my) (sura.kan) Catalan: lupa f Cherokee: ᎠᏔᏃᎯᏍᏗᏍᎩ (atanohisdisgi) Chinese: Cantonese: 放大鏡, 放大镜 (fong3 daai6 geng3) Mandarin: 放大鏡／放大镜 (zh) (fàngdàjìng) Min Dong: 大頭鏡, 大头镜 (duâi-tàu-giáng) Min Nan: 譀鏡 (zh-min-nan), 譀镜 (hàm-kiàⁿ) Czech: lupa (cs) f, zvětšovací sklo n Danish: lup, forstørrelsesglas Dutch: vergrootglas (nl) n, loep (nl) f Esperanto: lupeo, grandiga vitro Estonian: suurendusklaas, luup (et) Finnish: suurennuslasi (fi) French: loupe (fr) f Galician: lupa f Georgian: ლუპა (luṗa), გამადიდებელი მინა (gamadidebeli mina) German: Lupe (de) f, Vergrößerungsglas n Hebrew: זְכוּכִית מַגְדֶּלֶת‎ (he) f (zchuchít magdélet) Hindi: आवर्धक लेन्स m (āvardhak lens) Hungarian: nagyító (hu) Icelandic: stækkunargler n Ido: lupo (io) Indonesian: lup (id), kaca pembesar (id), suryakanta (id) Irish: gloine mhéadaithe f Italian: lente d'ingrandimento f Japanese: 虫眼鏡 (ja) (むしめがね, mushimegane), 拡大鏡 (かくだいきょう, kakudaikyō), ルーペ (rūpe) Kalmyk: һал шил (ğal shil) Kannada: ಭೂತಗನ್ನಡಿ (kn) (bhūtagannaḍi) Kazakh: лупа (lupa) Khmer: កែវពង្រីក (km) (kaew pŭəngriik), កែវឆ្លុះ (kaew chloh) Korean: 돋보기 (ko) (dotbogi), 확대경(擴大鏡) (ko) (hwakdaegyeong), 루페 (rupe) Kyrgyz: лупа (lupa) Lao: ຊີ້ນປົງ (sīn pong), ແວ່ນຂະຫຍາຍ (wǣn kha nyāi) Latvian: palielināmais stikls m, lupa f Lithuanian: didinamasis stiklas m, lupa (lt) f Luxembourgish: Lupp f Macedonian: лупа f (lupa), зголемувач m (zgolemuvač) Malay: suryakanta, kanta pembesar Maori: karaihe whakanui Mongolian: Cyrillic: томруулагч шил (tomruulagč šil) Navajo: tózis yéego bee hootʼíní, tsésǫʼ áhánídę́ę́ʼ niiniłígíí, tózis ntsaago ádaʼaleʼé Norman: vèrre d'approche m Norwegian: Bokmål: lupe (no) m or f, forstørrelsesglass n Nynorsk: lupe f Persian: ذره‌بین‎ (fa) (zarre-bin) Polish: lupa (pl) f, szkło powiększające (pl) n Portuguese: lupa (pt) f Romanian: lupă (ro) f Russian: лу́па (ru) f (lúpa), увеличи́тельное стекло́ n (uveličítelʹnoje stekló) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: лупа f, увеличавајуће стакло n Roman: lupa (sh) f, uveličavajuće staklo n Slovak: lupa f, zväčšovacie sklo n Slovene: lupa f, povečevalno steklo (sl) n Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: lupa f Spanish: lupa (es) f Swedish: förstoringsglas (sv) n, lupp (sv) c Tagalog: pandako Tajik: заррабин (zarrabin), пурбин (purbin) Thai: แว่นขยาย (wɛ̂n-kà-yǎai) Tibetan: ཆེ་ཤེལ (che shel) Turkish: büyüteç (tr), pertavsız (tr) Turkmen: lupa Ukrainian: лу́па f (lúpa), збі́льшувальне скло n (zbílʹšuvalʹne sklo) Uzbek: lupa (uz) Vietnamese: kính lúp (vi), kiếng lúp Welsh: chwyddwydr m

See also

• loupe
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