loupe

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  1. noun A small magnifying glass usually set in an eyepiece and used chiefly by watchmakers and jewelers.

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  • He examined the thangkas at close range with his loupe, then plucked a thread of silk off the edge of each in turn and examined them as well. —  The Wheel of Darkness by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
  • Under the 10x magnification of the loupe, the flaw, filled with resin so it wouldn't be obvious to the naked eye, was clear. —  AHMM,September2008
  • They're mostly household things, easily got: a tape measure showing inches and centimetres; a x10 loupe (higher magnification is more nuisance than help); a colour chart (I use a Daler-Rowney one because art shops give them free – I pencil in dates the actual colours came in); a midget pocket calculator because I'm thick doing sums; a miniature pencil torch. —  process 10
  • • Advanced editing tools, including loupe tool, measure tools, image tool, file attachment tool, link tools, annotation selection tool, and more —  2BakSa.Net
  • I used to have a PDF (ex EPS) Logo that I put into Pages and then referenced with the color picker loupe, resulting probably in different colour spaces (CMYK and RGB) in the same document, probably also different profiles. —  Discussions: Message List - root
 

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  1. French, from Old French, flawed gem, probably of Germanic origin.

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  1. Also loop; from French loupe, a knob, lump, wen, etc.
 

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