n. 25B6; noun
optical magnification : ENLARGEMENT, enhancement, increase, augmentation, extension, expansion, amplification, intensification.
the magnification of marginal details : EXAGGERATION, overstatement, overemphasis, overplaying, dramatization, colouring, embroidery, embellishment, inflation, hyperbole, aggrandizement; informal blowing up (out of all proportion), making a big thing out of something.
reduction, understatement.