English dictionary: words starting with optic

adjective

Relating to the eye or vision.

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Vigilance is needed for any features of possible optic neuropathy, such as blurred vision, impaired…

noun

A lens or other optical component in an optical instrument.

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Not only does the lens have the power of some of the white-coloured optics you've seen at sidelines…

plural noun

Glass or plastic fibers used to send light that contains information or images around curves

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Fiber-optic devices are used in medicine to examine internal organs., the cable tv company is layin…

adjective

Relating to sight, especially in relation to the action of light.

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Optical illusions

noun

A pair of glasses.

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He pushed his opticals on to the bridge of his nose

noun

Something that you think you see, but that is not really there

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Some sort of optical illusion makes these things seem to travel faster than they really do.

adverb

In a way that relates to light or the ability to see, or to what someone sees

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These lightbulbs are bad optically—they cause a lot of glare., the substance is polished to give an…

noun

A person qualified to prescribe and dispense glasses and contact lenses, and to detect eye diseases ( ophthalmic optician ) or to make and supply glasses and contact lenses ( dispensing optician ).

noun

A person qualified to prescribe and dispense glasses and contact lenses, and to detect eye diseases ( ophthalmic optician ) or to make and supply glasses and contact lenses ( dispensing optician ).

noun

An expert in or student of optics.

noun

An expert in or student of optics.

noun

The degree of optical activity of a solution, especially as a measure of its concentration in the brewing and food industries.

adjective

Of or relating to the optic and ciliary nerves (rare).

noun

A lens or other optical component in an optical instrument.

plural noun

The scientific study of sight and the behaviour of light, or the properties of transmission and deflection of other forms of radiation.

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In applied mathematics he studied optics, electricity, telegraphy, capillarity, elasticity, thermod…