Crossword-Solution: OPTICS
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Optics | n. | That branch of physical science which treats of the nature and properties of light, the laws of its modification by opaque and transparent bodies, and the phenomena of vision. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| OPTICS | anagram | OPCITS, PICOTS, TOPICS |
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Sentences with OPTICS (5)
Yet those same bleared optics had a strange, penetrating power, when it was their owner’s purpose to read the human soul.
FDDI (Fiber Distributed Data Interface) An emerging standard for network technology based on fiber optics that has been established by ANSI.
She screwed her dim optics to their acutest point, in the hope of making out, with greater distinctness, a certain window, where she half saw, half guessed, that a tailor’s seamstress was sitting at her work.
Light—Optics—Solar Spectrum—Decomposition of Light—Light, Heat, and Actinism—Blue Paper and Color for the Walls of the Operating Room—Proportions of Light, Heat, and Actinism composing a Sunbeam—Refraction—Reflection—Lenses—Copying Spherical Aberration—Chromatic Aberration.
Before we enter on this subject it will be necessary to become familiar with the DEFINITIONS of some of the terms used in the science of optics.
Quotes with OPTICS (3)
When asked about which scientist he'd like to meet, Neil de Grasse Tyson said, "Isaac Newton. No question about it. The smartest person ever to walk the face of this earth. The man was connected to the universe in spooky ways. He discovered the laws of motion, the laws of gravity, the laws of optics. Then he turned 26.
Optimism is a matter optics, of seeing what you want to see and not seeing what you don't want to see. Hope, on the other hand, is a Christian virtue. It is the unblinking acknowledgment of all that militates against hope, and the unrelenting refusal to despair. We have not the right to despair, and, finally, we have not the reason to despair
A graceless pastor is a blind man elected to a professorship of optics.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 69 times in crossword archives (1951–2025).