enlarger

American  

[en-lahr-jer] / ɛnˈlɑr dʒər /

noun

Photography.

1. 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.

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enlarger British  

/ ɪnˈlɑːdʒə /

noun

1. 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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enlarger

But we had an enlarger to print — which actually became your room later.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2024

In his studio, with a photo enlarger in the corner and an orange tree outside the window, his stacks of albums show the stadium lights Escobar installed for soccer fields in working-class neighborhoods.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 28, 2021

A horizontal enlarger beamed the negative image across a room onto raw photographic paper on the opposite wall.

From New York Times ● Oct. 16, 2020

A bathroom has been transformed into a darkroom, complete with a custom-made Leitz enlarger and a fibre print washer installed in the claw-foot tub.

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 13, 2019

Although the typewriters were brought in unharmed, the enlarger was hopelessly smashed.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols