How to Use optical in a Sentence

optical

adjective

• The company manufactures microscopes, telescopes, and other optical instruments.
• If the optical zoom is important to you, the Pixel 7 Pro is the way to go.
  — Dave Leclair, PCMAG, 12 May 2023
• And the optical nerve is about 20 megabytes per second.
  — TIME, 13 Feb. 2024
• The rear camera has jumped from 8 megapixels to 12, with no optical zoom.
  — Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 27 Oct. 2022
• The team made use of optical chips with channels that allowed photons to pass through.
  — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 10 July 2023
• Through this great optical telescope he was said to have seen amazing sights on the moon’s surface.
  — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2022
• The Pro Max camera boasts a 5x optical zoom, and allows for 120mm focal length.
  — Byrachyl Jones, Fortune, 12 Sep. 2023
• From a dark site, the cluster is visible as a hazy patch to the naked eye, but urban dwellers can get a nice view with a bit of optical aid.
  — Geoff Chester, Washington Post, 1 June 2023
• Dumping the fuel appeared to be aimed at blinding the drone’s optical instruments to drive it from the area.
  — Karl Ritter, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Mar. 2023
• The chain offers fresh food and a full-service deli as well as optical and tire services and on-site gas stations.
  — Leada Gore | [e-mail], al, 15 Aug. 2022
• Even in a digital-first world, optical disks like DVDs and Blu-rays still have their many uses.
  — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 22 Feb. 2024
• Some of the light from the fiber bounces back from the tissue, and those emissions are transmitted through the mirror and focused onto the optical sensor and the tube lens.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 8 Jan. 2024
• Because of the optical haze in Nube, Dr. Montes said, astronomers can see the shape of the dark-matter halo that underlies the dwarf galaxy.
  — Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2024
• There are almost no other smartphones in the US with a 10x optical zoom camera.
  — WIRED, 27 Nov. 2022
• The big news though is better optical zoom: 5X zoom, up from three-times zoom in previous Pro model.
  — WSJ, 12 Sep. 2023
• The eye had never been removed from the donor’s socket, and the surrounding tissue and the optical nerve remained intact.
  — Kaitlin Sullivan, NBC News, 9 Nov. 2023
• The main camera has optical image stabilization, which is good news for a phone in this price range.
  — Christian De Looper, BGR, 30 Aug. 2022
• The northern lights cover a fairly large part of the sky and looking through an optical instrument will just limit your field of view too much.
  — Nicole Clausing, Sunset Magazine, 11 Oct. 2023
• But most recently, the first full-color image from the James Webb Space Telescope, the largest optical telescope in space, showed a universe filled with stars.
  — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 13 Dec. 2022
• Oddly, there's also an eject key, even though Apple hasn't released a Mac with an optical drive since 2012.
  — Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 16 Aug. 2022
• The researchers monitored how the clay changed using a 3D optical scanner.
  — Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Nov. 2023
• The dazzling optical effects in the artist’s paintings suddenly made sense.
  — Mary Tompkins Lewis, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2023
• The optical device detects lightning – both within and between clouds, as well as from clouds to the ground – over the Americas from a satellite.
  — Allison Elyse Gualtieri, CBS News, 13 Aug. 2022
• At lower power output, lasers can confuse the optical sensors on a drone.
  — Alex Hollings, Popular Mechanics, 13 Jan. 2023
• The VT1s accelerate up to 3.5 times the speed of sound and are guided via narrow-beam radio commands based on a fusion of radar and optical sensor tracks in the battery.
  — Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 22 Mar. 2023
• There is no trace of the lenses or other optical devices that many critics (and the artist David Hockney) have argued Vermeer must have employed.
  — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2023
• Meanwhile, a third optical laser measures incisions in real-time to ensure the exact depth of cuts.
  — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 6 Dec. 2023
• The surface appeared to dissolve into an optical cloud.
  — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2023
• The Hall of Fame champion dons sunglass and optical styles from the latest men’s line in a series of images and videos for the fashion house run by Donatella Versace.
  — Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Jan. 2024
• People who wear glasses will want a deeper eye relief, since their glasses will add some distance between the optical lens and their eyes.
  — Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 28 June 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024