the act of enlarging or the condition of being enlarged something that enlarges or is intended to enlarge a photographic print that is larger than the negative from which it is made
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en•large•ment /ɛnˈlɑrdʒmənt/USA pronunciation
n. something that is added on:[countable]built an enlargement to the house.
[countable] a photographic print that has been made larger than the original.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025- [uncountable] the state or condition of having increased.
en•large•ment
(en lärj′mənt),USA pronunciation n.
- an act of enlarging;
increase, expansion, or amplification. - Photographyanything, as a photograph, that is an enlarged form of something.
- anything that enlarges something else;
addition:The new wing formed a considerable enlargement to the building.
- enlarge + -ment 1530–40
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'enlargement' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
-megaly
- Gaucher's disease
- Hodgkin's disease
- Niemann-Pick disease
- abridgment
- acromegaly
- addition
- adenopathy
- adenosis
- amplificatory
- athlete's heart
- auxocardia
- bighead
- blowup
- bunion
- bunionette
- cardiomegaly
- cor pulmonale
- dactylomegaly
- dilatation
- elephantiasis
- embrasure
- emphysema
- exophthalmic goiter
- expansion
- extension
- ganglion
- gargoylism
- goiter
- gynecomastia
- hepatitis
- hepatomegaly
- hydrocephalus
- hyperadenosis
- hyperplasia
- hypertrophy
- increase
- irradiation
- kala-azar
- macro-
- micro
- microphotograph
- prostatism
- proventriculus
- rickets
- spavin
- spina bifida
- splenomegaly
- splint
- stomach