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What do you mean by the magnification produced by the mirror?


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  1. The literal meaning of magnification by the mirror is image size (enlarged/diminished/equal) concerned with the object size.
  2. An increase in the size of the image when placed in front of curved or spherical mirrors concerning its position is called magnification.
  3. The magnification value can be obtained by the ratio of image height to object height.

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