Usually means: Making an object appear larger.
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  1. magnifying: Merriam-Webster
  2. magnifying: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. magnifying: Collins English Dictionary
  4. magnifying: Vocabulary.com
  5. Magnifying, magnifying: Wordnik
  6. magnifying: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. magnifying: Wiktionary
  8. Magnifying, magnifying: Dictionary.com
  9. magnifying: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Magnifying: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Magnifying: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. magnifying: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. magnifying: FreeDictionary.org
  14. magnifying: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. magnifying: Legal dictionary

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. magnifying: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. magnifying: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (magnify)

verb:  (transitive) To praise, glorify (someone or something, especially God).
verb:  (transitive) To make (something) larger or more important.
verb:  (transitive) To make (someone or something) appear greater or more important than it is; to intensify, exaggerate.
verb:  (transitive) To make (something) appear larger by means of a lens, magnifying glass, telescope etc.
verb:  (intransitive, slang, obsolete) To have effect; to be of importance or significance.
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