Assertion: microscope's magnification | /r/HasProperty | the ratio
Facets:
value: between its true size
type: OTHER
value: between its size in an image
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: Optical magnification is the ratio between the apparent size of an object (or its size in an image) and its true size, and thus it is a dimensionless number.
text: Magnification is a ratio between the size of an object on a picture and its real size.
text: By convention, for magnifying glasses and optical microscopes, where the size of the object is a linear dimension and the apparent size is an angle, the magnification is the ratio between the apparent (angular) size as seen in the eyepiece and the angular size of the object when placed at the conventional closest distance of distinct vision: 25 cm from the eye.
text: Magnification is the ratio between an object's apparent size, usually seen through some sort of lens apparatus, and the object's actual size.