enlarger

[en-lahr-jer]

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.

Compare contact printer.

Origin of enlarger

1535–45, for an earlier sense; enlarge + -er¹

Also called projection printer.

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Examples from the Web for enlarger

Historical Examples of enlarger

But in sober truth, Pope, whether as a gardener or as a poet, required no enlarger or improver of his works.
Flowers and Flower-Gardens
David Lester Richardson
As a guarantee of good faith we are giving samples of our famous Enlarger away to all well-known Puddin'-owners.
The Magic Pudding
Norman Lindsay
He put the microcopy in an enlarger, and carried the enlarged print with him to the conveyer room.
Time Crime
H. Beam Piper

British Dictionary definitions for enlarger

enlarger

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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