Definition of optic
: of or relating to vision or the eye
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Dr Ozanyan says that the team have built a demonstration fibre-optic mat, two metres long and a metre wide, using materials that cost £100 ($130).
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The top was also the ideal complement for Lopez’s optic white fitted trousers.
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To boost its cloud-computing business, the firm is also building three new underwater fibre-optic cables to run along ocean floors from the Pacific to the North Sea.
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The company is now building out its fiber-optic network, as are many rural internet service providers (ISPs).
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To reach you, these words were encoded into signals of light moving about 125,000 miles per second through fiber-optic cables.
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The front hemline was kept tea-length, and there were more than 190 yards of short pleated optic white tulle and a detachable train that took four months of fittings and travel back and forth from Paris to reach perfection.
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It is linked to other labs around Europe by fibre-optic cables that are used to synchronise the measurements of atomic clocks.
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Big Glass Microphone turned the fiber-optic telecommunications infrastructure embedded beneath Stanford University into a terrestrial eavesdropping tool.
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Recent Examples of optic from the Web
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All of this came amid optics that further scrambled the conversation.
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Such bad optics in fact that Trump's been condemned by usually stalwart supporters like the Southern Baptist Convention and evangelist Franklin Graham.
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But the announcement that the museum had tapped 31-year-old Kristen Windmuller-Luna—a white woman—to curate its African art wing went viral off the optics alone.
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My issue, though, is not one of flavor but one of optics, so a plea to Starbucks executives: Don’t make this a thing stateside.
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But beating Audi wasn't cheap, and the optics of spending tens of millions of euros a year to do that while firing thousands of workers were pretty bad.
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This, somehow, does not jive with the optics of what players and coaches are seeing.
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The optics of displacing special education students in favor of gifted students drew extreme ire, as well as a lawsuit, and that plan was also scrapped after months of protests.
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Which is to say that the optics of the arrest mirrored the meaning of the arrest: Weinstein’s detainment is at once big news and small.
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First Known Use of optic
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Definition of optic for Students
: of or relating to seeing or the eye
- the optic nerve
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