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This magnification value determines the diameter of the field of view when the low power objective is used. A microscope's field of view refers to the diameter of the circular optical light that is visible when viewing an object under the microscope. This value forms an inverse relationship with magnification, which means that increasing the magnification results in the reduction of the field of view.
The field of view is used to specify the width of an area that is visible through the lens at a certain distance. That distance is generally measured at the 1000 feet mark. The magnification and the FOV of a binocular are inversely proportional to each other. So the bigger the magnification, the smaller is the FOV.