Crossword-Solution: OPTICAL 7 letters, 44 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

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Word Word Type Definition
Optical a. Of or pertaining to vision or sight.
Optical a. Of or pertaining to the eye; ocular; as, the optic nerves
(the first pair of cranial nerves) which are distributed to the retina.
See Illust. of Brain, and Eye.
Optical a. Relating to the science of optics; as, optical works.

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OPTICAL anagram CAPITOL, COALPIT, TOPICAL

We have 44 clues for the answer “OPTICAL”

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of or involving light or optics 1 answer
A kind of illusion. 1 answer
Film's special effect 1 answer
Frame-shop descriptor 1 answer
Kind of computer or disk 1 answer
Kind of effects 1 answer
Kind of illusion 1 answer
Kind of scanner 1 answer
Like Blu-ray media 1 answer
Like CD storage 1 answer
Like some fiber 1 answer
Like some film effects 1 answer
Like some illusions 1 answer
Like some scanners 1 answer
Like some thin fibers 1 answer
Like spectroscopes and microscopes 1 answer
Of the peepers 1 answer
Re sight 1 answer
Sort of illusion 1 answer
Type of illusion 1 answer
Relating to vision 2 answers
Sight-based 2 answers
Like some mice? 2 answers
Relating to sight 3 answers
Pertaining to sight. 3 answers
Of vision. 3 answers
Kind of mouse 3 answers
Vision-related 6 answers
Type of lens 8 answers
AN ILLUSION THAT MISLEADS 10 answers
BASED ON OR HAVING THE NATURE OF AN ILLUSION 11 answers
visually 13 answers
seeable 13 answers
Kind of glass 13 answers
Viewable 15 answers
ocular 17 answers
Optic 17 answers
Viewed. 17 answers
visional 17 answers
Beheld 19 answers
Visual ___ 34 answers
Perceived 40 answers
Illusion 69 answers
Obvious 73 answers
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with OPTICAL (5)

The term `optical diff' has also been reported, and is sometimes more specifically used for the act of superimposing two nearly identical printouts on one another and holding them up to a light to spot differences.
The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992
ZIDAR explained how NAL purchased hardware and software capable of performing optical character recognition (OCR) and text conversion and used its own staff to convert texts.
LOC Workshop on Electronic Texts Library of Congress 1993
Capturing (scanning) of photograph with optical scanner or with a special "video" camera The better sort of optical scanner looks like a small xerox machine.
Email 101 John Goodwin 1993
The optical measurement computers which grind the mirrors of the telescope had a software program that was never tested before being used on the Hubble.
Terminal Compromise Winn Schwartau 1993
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The Online World Odd de Presno 1993

Quotes with OPTICAL (3)

The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man.
Victor Hugo Les Miserables
A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creature…
Albert Einstein
But it so happens that everything on this planet is, ultimately, irrational; there is not, and cannot be, any reason for the causal connexion of things, if only because our use of the word "reason" already implies the idea of causal connexion. But, even if we avoid this fundamental difficulty, Hume said that causal connexion was not merely unprovable, but unthinkable; and, in shallower waters still, one cannot assign a true reason why water should flow down hill, or sugar tas…
Aleister Crowley
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Appears in: Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 43 times in crossword archives (1953–2025).