optics

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the branch of physics concerned with light, vision, and the behavior of electromagnetic radiation

   She studied optics to understand how lenses focus light.

2. 2
   noun

   the optical properties or components of an instrument

   The telescope's optics produced a sharp image of Saturn.

3. 3
   noun

   the way an action, decision, or event appears to the public

   The proposal may be sound, but the optics of approving it in secret are poor.

4. 4
   noun

   technology that applies the science of light, especially in lenses, imaging, and communications

   The laboratory develops advanced optics for medical imaging.

Common collocations

• fiber optics Noun + noun

From Medieval Latin opticus ("of sight"), from Ancient Greek optikos ("of or for sight"), ultimately from ops ("eye"). The plural-forming -ics marks a field of study, as in physics.

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