Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small magnifying glass used chiefly by watchmakers and jewelers.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A lens or magnifying-glass.
- noun A mass of pasty iron mingled with slag as taken from the Catalan forge when ready to be shingled.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Any of a variety of small magnifying glasses, having a magnifying power from 2X to 20X, commonly of 10X, which may be held in the hand, or in some cases held within the eyesocket without the use of a hand. It is commonly used by jewelers and watchmakers.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
magnifying glass , usually mounted in aneyepiece , often used byjewellers andwatchmakers . - noun A type of short-range
binoculars used bysurgeons anddentists .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun small magnifying glass (usually set in an eyepiece) used by jewelers and horologists
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Aside from the technical gear, average shoppers can snag a swan-shaped velvet ring box ($2) or jewelry soap ($3.95), or get a close look at their own gems with the jeweler's monocle known as a loupe ($20 to more than $100).
NYT > Home Page 2009
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“That good?” he asked, putting down the photographer’s proofs of turkeys—Matt was on the Butterball campaign—that he was studying with a little magnifying glass called a loupe.
The Opposite of Me SARAH PEKKANEN 2010
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Continuing to cruife at the entrance of the Channel, on the 31ft of Oflober he took a French (hip from Guada - loupe, which is faid by fome to have mounted forty guns, and to have had on board a cargo valued at upwards of one hundred thoufand pounds.
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4 Responses to "Creating the 'loupe' or magnifying glass effect on the iphone."
Introspection jhaynie 2010
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5 Responses to "Creating the 'loupe' or magnifying glass effect on the iphone."
Introspection jhaynie 2010
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Analog animators use a light box for tracing and animating and film photographers use them to look at negatives with a loupe, the main difference being an animator was less concerned with the warmth of the light where as a photographer was b/c of white balance.
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I'm fairly sure that a loupe would confirm what I suspect: Fabio has given her the best of the best.
The Cooking Lesson Gita M. Smith 2011
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Sarah Hotchkiss 's "My Vacation to the Moon" 2011 is a mini-installation—including a print, a lightbox, a loupe and a fake slide—that pays homage to Kodachrome, the now-discontinued color transparency film that from 1935 to 2009 recorded innumerable trips so vividly.
The Self and Others William Meyers 2011
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That is where the line can become a snaking slow-paced procession leading to a Transportation Security Officers who is manually checks passengers' IDs by using a black light and magnifying loupe.
Teresa Rodriguez Williamson: TSA Security Check Made Easier With the Return of CLEARcard Teresa Rodriguez Williamson 2011
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That is where the line can become a snaking slow-paced procession leading to a Transportation Security Officers who is manually checks passengers' IDs by using a black light and magnifying loupe.
Teresa Rodriguez Williamson: TSA Security Check Made Easier With the Return of CLEARcard Teresa Rodriguez Williamson 2011
joshbgraham commented on the word loupe
"not so much at being caught out and having to confess his lowly status to his cousin, as at this evidence of a flaw in the omniveillant maternal loupe" (Kavalier and Clay 9)
August 13, 2008
super-logos commented on the word loupe
Le veiller est la vie des hommes.
French Emblems at Glasgow
August 13, 2008
ecbrenner commented on the word loupe
In computer software: "Loupe is a utility that displays a magnified view of whatever is beneath the mouse cursor, much like a jeweler or printer loupe. A loupe can be found in products like Adobe Acrobat, or it is available as a stand-alone desktop utility. The term is derived from a loupe magnifying glass, which is usually found to have a magnification of 10X" --Webopedia
September 21, 2009