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optics

10 ENTRIES FOUND:
  1. optics (noun plural but singular in construction)
  2. optic (noun)
  3. adaptive optics (noun plural but singular or plural in construction)
  4. electron optics (noun plural but singular in construction)
  5. electro-optics (noun plural)
  6. fiber optics (noun plural)
  7. geometrical optics (noun plural but singular in constructrion)
  8. physical optics (noun plural but usually singular in construction)
  9. fiber-optic (adjective)
  10. magneto-optic (adjective)

op·tics

noun pl but singular in constr \ˈäp-tiks\

Definition of OPTICS

: a science that deals with the genesis and propagation of light, the changes that it undergoes and produces, and other phenomena closely associated with it

First Known Use of OPTICS

1579

Other Physics Terms

amplitude, centrifugal, centripetal, convection, gradient, hysteresis, kinetic, lase, quantum

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