Definition of optic
: of or relating to vision or the eye
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The living room also has a wall-sized, fiber-optic art piece, illuminated by a skylight, that displays a stylized city skyline, airplane and fireworks.
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Vusirikala said that cloud computing providers and other tech companies with vast data center infrastructure have increased the pace of laying undersea fiber-optic cables over the last three years.
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Last year, a Russian firm gave North Korea a new Internet connection, apparently running fiber-optic lines over the railway bridge.
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Although the film's lush visuals are certainly a sight to behold, this optic eye candy serves a boring narrative with some pretty terrible acting and a robotic script.
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Electricians needed to learn about fiber-optic cables, and so on.
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CenturyLink's complaints spiked in 2015 when the company began offering its fiber-optic internet service in Portland and began aggressively pitching the service door-to-door.
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The government will provide spectrum in the 700MHz band and 18,000km of fibre-optic cables.
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The city sued Verizon last year after the company failed to offer its fiber-optic FiOS service to all residents.
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However, the optics of doing a partisan event in a state so reputed for its independent thinking are not good.
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One seemed not to know that the firm made money from advertising; another was more interested in getting Facebook to build fibre-optic cable in her state.
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Quintillion announced in February that after two summers of installation, its subsea fiber-optic cable to serve Alaska launched in five northern communities.
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Improvements will include resurfaced roadway, guardrails, sidewalks, drainage changes, Intelligent Transportation System and fiber-optic installation, lighting, signage and other features.
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The optics of that alone—especially as more and more shady information about Trump comes out—would do him in.
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In a first for the city, a fiber-optic system will connect 13 intersections so that all of the signals will be linked to communicate together and enhance traffic flow.
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Inside the White House on Friday, staffers expressed frustration by the optics of Pruitt's living arrangements, which come on the heels of the dismissal of Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin over ethical missteps.
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Nathan Brand, a spokesman for Rokita, said Rokita wasn’t worried about the optics of Greg Pence campaigning with Messer.
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Definition of optic for Students
: of or relating to seeing or the eye
- the optic nerve
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