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light microscope consisting of a single convex lens that is used to produce an enlarged image
the magnifying glass was invented by Roger Bacon in 1250
How To Use magnifying glass In A Sentence
- One should pass the magnifying glass over to science; the eyes are sufficient to appreciate the beauties of the landscape.
- Electrical cord had been wound around her head and the small handle of a magnifying glass had been used to tighten it like a garrotte. World record holder turned hitman jailed for murder
- Wearing a deerstalker hat and carrying an oversized magnifying glass she trampled through the crime scene destroying all kinds of forensic evidence.
- Unless you have pretty particular interests you're probably not going to have much use for a magnifying glass, a spanner or a miniature jig-saw.
- He wins a very useful deerstalker and magnifying glass.
- So I donned my deerstalker, polished my largest magnifying glass and set off with large exaggerated strides.
- I used a colposcope, which is basically a large magnifying glass with a light on it, to see inside the vaginal canal. Salem Falls
- Your watchful siblings are the editors perched on your lamp shade, magnifying glasses poised to catch your mistakes.
- If you gave her a letter, she would transcribe it "on a miniature desk in the tiniest of script, sealed with a miniscule wax seal with the sender's intial pressed into it, packaged up with a magnifying glass in a glassine envelope, and finished off with a large wax seal. Leafcutter Designs: Large Concepts in Small Packages
- The iridologist will examine the irises of your eyes using either a slitlamp (a piece of equipment also employed by optometrists and ophthalmologists) or just a penlight and magnifying glass. BellaOnline - The Voice of Women