enlarger

[ en-lahr-jer ]

noun

Photography.

1. an apparatus used for making projection prints, having a head for holding, illuminating, and projecting a film negative and a bed for holding a sheet of sensitized printing paper.

Word History and Origins

Origin of enlarger¹

1535–45, for an earlier sense; enlarge + -er ¹

Example Sentences

But we had an enlarger to print — which actually became your room later.

From Los Angeles Times

Early on, in a group darkroom there, he first made use of multiple enlargers, an innovative approach that accelerated his creation of photomontages.

From New York Times

Uelsmann became influential in the 1960s by compositing images using multiple enlargers, which are specialized transparency projectors used to produce photographic prints from negatives.

From Seattle Times

In his studio, with a photo enlarger in the corner and an orange tree outside the window, his stacks of albums show the stadium lights Escobar installed for soccer fields in working-class neighborhoods.

From Washington Post

A horizontal enlarger beamed the negative image across a room onto raw photographic paper on the opposite wall.

From New York Times