enlarger

American

[en-lahr-jer] / ɛnˈlɑr dʒər /

noun

Photography.

an apparatus used for making projection prints, having a head for holding, illuminating, and projecting a film negative and a bed for holding a sheet of sensitized printing paper.

enlarger British

/ ɪnˈlɑːdʒə /

noun

an optical instrument for making enlarged photographic prints in which a negative is brightly illuminated and its enlarged image is focused onto a sheet of sensitized paper

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Etymology

Origin of enlarger

1535–45, for an earlier sense; enlarge + -er ¹

Example Sentences

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The commodity which I vend is Pootles' Patent Pudding Enlarger, samples of which I have in the bag.

From The Magic Pudding Being the Adventures of Bunyip Bluegum and His Friends Bill Barnacle & Sam Sawnoff by Lindsay, Norman

The commodity which I vend is Pootles's Patent Pudding Enlarger, samples of which I have in the bag.

From The Magic Pudding by Lindsay, Norman

The Enlarger, one of the wonders of modern science, has but to be poured over the puddin', with certain necessary incantations, and the puddin' will be instantly enlarged to double its normal size.'

From The Magic Pudding by Lindsay, Norman

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