Optics is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for OPTICS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• OPTIC, an eye
• a lens or other optical component in an optical instrument.
• the eye.
• a device fastened to the neck of an inverted bottle for measuring out spirits.
• science of sight and light
• That branch of physical science which treats of the nature and properties of light, the laws of its modification by opaque and transparent bodies, and the phenomena of vision.
• the branch of physics that studies the physical properties of light
• optical properties
ADJECTIVE:
• relating to the eye or vision.

Words related to OPTICS

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Words that contain OPTICS

entoptics13 synoptics16 orthoptics17 stereoptics15 presbyoptics23

How to use OPTICS in a sentence

• I was watched by glasses on the opposite side of the lake, and by glasses, too, that must have had very distorted optics.
• And the narrowness of his intellects, the optics of these connoisseurs were not calculated to discern.
• He casts his optics around him until he finds the bird for which he thinks he had better go.
• The laws of the affections are as necessary as those of optics.
• But this, as well as the consideration of the solar spectrum of Newton, is more the specialty of Optics.
• But to the peculiar optics which abound in these United States it may be necessary to show the entire picture.
• Cave that this was not in accordance with the laws of optics as he had known them in his younger days.
• He recognized the place of mathematics as the basis of exact science, and proceeded to the investigation of the facts and laws of optics, mechanics, chemistry, and astronomy.
• Its aim is to depict on a flat surface the aspect of objects supposed to stand behind it and to be seen through it, and its means are two branches of the science of optics.
• So that, if there be in truth any such intuition, I occupy with regard to the organ of it the same position as that of the blind lecturer on optics.
• Until after optics had made considerable advance, the Copernican system remained but a speculation.
• It is advisable that persons engaging in the Daguerreotype art should have at least a little knowledge of the general principles of light and optics.
• But unluckily his criticisms were directed precisely to those points wherein optics may vie in evidence with geometry itself.
• Before we enter on this subject it will be necessary to become familiar with the DEFINITIONS of some of the terms used in the science of optics.
• I should be pleased to enter more fully into this branch of the science of optics, but the bounds to which I am necessarily limited in a work of this kind will not admit of it.
• He explained minutely the construction of the instrument, showing clearly how it was made in accordance with the natural laws of optics.
• Coyote Pete scrutinized it with keen eyes for a moment, narrowing his optics till they were mere slits.
• He was especially learned in natural philosophy, mathematics, geometry, and optics, having lectured before the King on various occasions.
• I recognized Archie at a glance, and dragging the detective inside the waiting-room, posted him as to the arrival with the wild look and blood-shot optics.
• While a painter may be the better for knowing the laws of light, there can be no question that he may do very good work without any knowledge whatever of the science of optics.
• Yet another applied himself to self-improvement with industry and perseverance, and the world know him now as the talented author, Oliver Optics.
• Nature has not furnished me with the optics of a cat.
• It is based on the performance of the famous Hermann, and relies on a principle of optics for its success.
• For the information of his uncle, and to atone in part for his previous neglect, Bog devoted only a half eye to the Minford family, and kept the rest of his optics on the fire.
• The optics of that politician must be of a strange conformation, who beholds everything in this distorted shape.
• All parts of physiological psychological optics can contribute similar material.
• In mechanics and physics, astronomy, mathematics and optics, the work of the Alexandrians constitutes the basis of a large part of our modern knowledge.

Similar words containing OPTIC without suffix s

optic9 bioptic13 optical11 autoptic12 entoptic12 holoptic15 optician12 opticist12 panoptic14 suboptic14 synoptic15 dichoptic19 entoptics13 floptical16 hydroptic20 optically16 opticians13 opticists13 orthoptic16 sarcoptic15 syncoptic18 synoptics16 autoptical14 fibreoptic19 flopticals17 orthoptics17 panoptical16 panopticon16 supraoptic16 synoptical17 stereoptic14 hemianoptic20 panopticons17 stereoptics15 autoptically19 panoptically21 stereopticon16 synoptically22 presbyoptics23 stereopticons17

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