Definition of optic
: of or relating to vision or the eye
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On Love actress Gillian Jacobs, who arrived wearing a red squiggly, double-hem incarnation complete with a pair of optic-white Danskos.
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Quintillion has had much larger ambitions for the fiber-optic project, connecting Asia to Europe with lines extending across Alaska.
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And just like Victoria Beckham across town, Chopra swapped out the haute footwear in favor of something with traction: Tretorn’s take on the classic duck boots in optic white, an elegant counterpoint to her retro-casual ensemble.
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The former head of FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's Broadband Deployment Advisory Committee (BDAC) has been arrested on a charge of wire fraud for allegedly tricking investors into pouring money into a fiber-optic network.
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The report said among other activities Ryu Jin shipped ball-bearings and fiber-optic cables to Syria and earned 56,000 Euros and 48,000 Euros respectively, which was transferred through Tanchon Commercial Bank.
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Able to pick up seismic disturbances created by delivery trucks, passing cyclists, and even the footsteps of lone pedestrians, the campus’s fiber-optic network became an underground tool for monitoring events on the surface.
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Hancock, who was promoted to the post from digital minister last month, is seeking greater investment in fiber-optic lines, which cover about 3 percent of the U.K., compared with Spain’s more than 70 percent.
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The system is building a new fiber-optic network, but not every pay phone site is close enough to a manhole to connect to it.
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While their talks tackle the serious aims of ending seven decades of hostilities and denuclearizing the Korean peninsula, optics ruled the show.
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The condition came to be known as Leber hereditary optic neuropathy.
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What remains to be seen is whether the administration’s modus operandi — with its theatrical bravado, grand gestures and guessing-game optics — can actually deliver a diplomatic win.
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Crystal-clear optics in a cool neutral tint take the sting out of sun on gleamy surfaces.
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But that only works if the optics game of a subscription service being a massive deal stays alive.
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But optics aside, the legal question that the payment now presents is this: Was the $130,000 check to Daniels written in order to protect Trump’s chances at winning the presidential campaign?
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Gauss -- whose full name is Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss -- made significant contributions to many fields of mathematics and science, including algebra, number theory, differential geometry, geophysics, magnetic fields and optics.
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The intense x-ray emissions from these disks would be exceedingly faint when viewed from Earth’s vicinity, sending only one photon apiece into Chandra’s optics every five or 10 minutes.
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First Known Use of optic
1601
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: of or relating to seeing or the eye
- the optic nerve
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