Hold a magnifying glass over a coin. The coin is exactly the same coin; only the view has swollen. Every use of this word keeps that one picture — something looking larger than life size while staying the size it was. From there the word answers two different questions. How much bigger does this lens make things look? That is a number. And what happens when a story, not a leaf, is put under the glass? That is .
From the word’s history
The noun comes from magnify, which traces back through Middle French and Latin magnificare to magnus, meaning great or big. The core of the word has been bigness from the start.
這個名詞來自動詞 magnify。往前一路經過中古法文和拉丁文 magnificare，最後接到 magnus，也就是「大」。所以這個字從一開始核心就是「大」，只是後來分成看起來大和講得大兩條路。
Wiktionary etymology tree supplied in packet (kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1116681604): Latin magnus > magnificus > magnificāre > Middle French magnifier > Middle English magnifien > English magnify > magnification.
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