Dictionary

loupe en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /luːp/

Etymology

Borrowed from French loupe.

Meanings

1. A magnifying glass, usually mounted in an eyepiece, often used by jewellers and watchmakers.
   • Pemulis owns stuff like philatelic forceps, a loupe, a pharmaceutical scale, a postal scale, a personal-size Bunsen burner […] 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 213:
   • pale gnomes, patient as lock-pickers, squinted through loupes, adjusting tremblers and timers with tiny screwdrivers and forceps. 2006, Thomas Pynchon, “Iceland Spar”, in Against the Day, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 235:
   • The watchmaker himself, a white-haired éminence grise, was bent over his work, a jeweler’s loupe in his eye, when I walked in. 2026 April 24, Robert Klose, “Fix my watch, tell me a story”, in The Christian Science Monitor, Boston, Massachusetts: Christian Science Publishing Society, →ISSN, →OCLC:
2. A type of short-range binoculars used by surgeons and dentists.

Forms

Deriveds

under the loupe

Relateds

magnifying glass · lens

Translations (28)

cmn 放大鏡 /放大镜 (magnifying glass often used by jewellers and watchmakers) · tr pertavsız (magnifying glass often used by jewellers and watchmakers) · fr loupe (magnifying glass often used by jewellers and watchmakers) · fi luuppi (magnifying glass often used by jewellers and watchmakers) · de Lupe (magnifying glass often used by jewellers and watchmakers) · pt lupa (magnifying glass often used by jewellers and watchmakers) · ru лу́па (type of binoculars used by surgeons and dentists) · fi luuppi (type of binoculars used by surgeons and dentists) · sh lupa (magnifying glass often used by jewellers and watchmakers) · it occhiali ingrandenti (type of binoculars used by surgeons and dentists) · bg лупа (magnifying glass often used by jewellers and watchmakers) · io lupo (magnifying glass often used by jewellers and watchmakers) · de Vergrößerungsglas (magnifying glass often used by jewellers and watchmakers) · tr büyüteç (magnifying glass often used by jewellers and watchmakers) · ru увеличи́тельное стекло́ (magnifying glass often used by jewellers and watchmakers) · sh увеличавајуће стакло (magnifying glass often used by jewellers and watchmakers) · sh uveličavajuće staklo (magnifying glass often used by jewellers and watchmakers) · cs lupa (magnifying glass often used by jewellers and watchmakers) · hu lupe (magnifying glass often used by jewellers and watchmakers) · nl loep (magnifying glass often used by jewellers and watchmakers) · sv lupp (magnifying glass often used by jewellers and watchmakers) · hu (kézi) nagyító (magnifying glass often used by jewellers and watchmakers) · sh лупа (magnifying glass often used by jewellers and watchmakers) · hu nagyítóüveg (magnifying glass often used by jewellers and watchmakers) · pl lupa (magnifying glass often used by jewellers and watchmakers) · eo lupeo (magnifying glass often used by jewellers and watchmakers) · ru лу́па (magnifying glass often used by jewellers and watchmakers) · ja ルーペ (magnifying glass often used by jewellers and watchmakers)