Crossword clues for optic
optic
- Fiber follower
- __ nerve
- Some kind of nerve
- Of eyesight
- Fiber-__ cable
- Like some nerves
- Related to vision
- Pertaining to the eye
- Some kind of nerve?
- Retinal nerve
- Nerve type
- Concerning the eye
- Relating to sight
- Pertaining to vision
- Of eyes
- Adrian Tomine comic "___ Nerve"
- About the eye
- ___ disc (retina part)
- Word before nerve or disc
- Vision related
- Type of modern fiber
- Type of lens or nerve
- Type of cranial nerve
- The "o" of Verizon's Fios
- Telescope lens
- Spirits measurer
- Sight nerve
- Related to the eye
- Publican's measuring device
- Pathways to occipital lobes
- Of a sense
- Nerve of vision
- Like some nerve
- Like a loupe
- Kind of nerve or angle
- Juvenile writer Oliver
- Gin measure
- Fiber-___ network (technology used in telecommunications)
- Fiber-___ network
- Fiber type
- Device for dispensing measures of spirits
- Concerning sight
- Certain nerve
- Alcoholic drink dispenser
- -- nerve
- ____ nerve
- ___ tract (part of the brain's visual system)
- ___ nerve (visual system part)
- ___ nerve (retina-brain connector)
- ___ nerve (retina attachment)
- ___ disk (part of the eye)
- __ disc: eye part
- The eye
- Second cranial nerve
- Of the eyes
- Kind of nerve or axis
- Instrument's lens
- Eye doctor's lens
- ___ nerve (eye part)
- Some nerve?
- Sight-related
- Eye-related
- Vision-related
- Microscope lens
- Fiber-___ cable
- ___ disk (blind spot)
- Microscope part
- Kind of disc
- Part of FiOS
- Lens
- Some nerve!
- The organ of sight (`peeper' is an informal term for `eye')
- Instrument lens
- Relating to vision
- Some nerve you've got
- Of vision
- Pertaining to sight
- Visual system's ___ nerve
- Of sight
- Eye nerve
- Type of nerve
- Make a decision in charge of 19
- Eye Troy in old image
- Eye surgery to itch from time to time
- Work on movement: it might have spirit
- Work on involuntary movement relating to the eye
- Spirit-dispensing device
- Spirit measuring device
- Spirit measure
- Some nerve twitching after surgical procedure
- Looker's plump, with vice for stripping off
- Looker for work has a twitch
- Relating to the eye
- Procedure over involuntary movement of the eye
- Procedure held up by involuntary movement of the eye
- Pensioner ignoring a twitching of the eye
- Bar measure? Ring officer about it going up
- It may appear in bars of musical work as prelude to movement
- Inverted bottle attachment
- Device for measuring out spirits
- Describing vision of certain Christians eschewing leader
- Through which spirit is poured out of sight
- Teacher's falling on the rocks from here?
- Telescope part
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Optic \Op"tic\ ([o^]p"t[i^]k), n. [From Optic, a.]
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The organ of sight; an eye.
The difference is as great between The optics seeing, as the object seen.
--Pope. An eyeglass. [Obs.]
--Herbert.
Optic \Op"tic\ ([o^]p"t[i^]k), Optical \Op"tic*al\ ([o^]p"t[i^]*kal), a. [F. optique, Gr. 'optiko`s; akin to 'o`psis sight, 'o`pwpa I have seen, 'o`psomai I shall see, and to 'o`sse the two eyes, 'o`ps face, L. oculus eye. See Ocular, Eye, and cf. Canopy, Ophthalmia.]
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Of, pertaining to, or using vision or sight; as, optical illusions. [WordNet sense 2]
Syn: ocular, optic, visual.
The moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views.
--Milton. Of or pertaining to the eye; ocular; as, the optic nerves (the first pair of cranial nerves) which are distributed to the retina; the optic (or optical) axis of the eye. See Illust. of Brain, and Eye. [WordNet sense 3]
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Relating to the science of optics or to devices designed to assist vision; as, optical works; optical equipment. Optic angle (Opt.), the angle included between the optic axes of the two eyes when directed to the same point; -- sometimes called binocular parallax. Optic axis. (Opt.)
A line drawn through the center of the eye perpendicular to its anterior and posterior surfaces. In a normal eye it is in the direction of the optic axis that objects are most distinctly seen.
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The line in a doubly refracting crystal, in the direction of which no double refraction occurs. A uniaxial crystal has one such line, a biaxial crystal has two.
Optical circle (Opt.), a graduated circle used for the measurement of angles in optical experiments.
Optical square, a surveyor's instrument with reflectors for laying off right angles.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., from Middle French optique, obtique (c.1300) and directly from Medieval Latin opticus "of sight or seeing," from Greek optikos "of or having to do with sight," from optos "seen, visible," from op-, root of opsesthai "be going to see," related to ops "eye," from PIE *okw- "to see" (see eye (n.)).
Wiktionary
a. 1 Of, or relating to the eye or to vision. 2 Of, or relating to optics or optical instruments. n. 1 (lb en now humorous) An eye. 2 A lens or other part of an optical instrument that interacts with light.
WordNet
adj. of or relating to or resembling the eye; "ocular muscles"; "an ocular organ"; "ocular diseases"; "the optic (or optical) axis of the eye"; "an ocular spot is a pigmented organ or part believed to be sensitive to light" [syn: ocular, optical, opthalmic]
relating to or using sight; "ocular inspection"; "an optical illusion"; "visual powers"; "visual navigation" [syn: ocular, optical, visual]
Wikipedia
An optic (not to be confused with optics, the science of light) is something that changes the behavior or properties of light.
Optic may also refer to:
- Optic, an alcoholic spirits measure, a device for dispensing fixed amounts of alcoholic spirits
- Optic, a barley (Hordeum vulgare) cultivar
- OpTic Gaming, a professional video game team
OPTIC can refer to :
- Optimized Protocol for Transport of Images to Clients used by iCentrix's MarioNet split web browser
- OPTICS algorithm, an unsupervised learning clustering algorithm
Usage examples of "optic".
She chose breath over sight and grabbed the aerator, quenching her agonized lungs even as the high-tech optics were torn off her head, turning everything black.
If it were a case of agnosia, the patient would now be seeing what he had always seen, that is to say, there would have been no diminution of his visual powers, his brain would simply have been incapable of recognising a chair wherever there happened to be a chair, in other words, he would continue to react correctly to the luminous stimuli leading to the optic nerve, but, to use simple terms within the grasp of the layman, he would have lost the capacity to know what he knew and, moreover, to express it.
The chamber was acrawl with cavernicolous life: in the shallow pools lived crayfish and salamanders, whose optic ganglia had atrophied.
Deathstalker reached out with one feeder hand and pried open the covering of one optic organ.
The optic nerve leaves the eyeball just to one side of the fovea and its point of exit is the one place in the retina where photo-receptors are completely absent.
In fact, the ganglionic corpuscles of each eye may be considered as constituting a little brain, connected with the masses behind by the commissure, commonly called the optic nerve.
He agreed that mescal served only to stimulate the optic nerves, attuning them to the new vision, but the actual cause was iodine.
He suffered fracture of the base of the skull, of the bones of the face, and of the left ulna, and although suppuration at the points of fracture ensued, followed by an optic neuritis, an ultimate recovery was effected.
She did authorize me to inform you that she is currently suffering an acute condition called a bilateral optic neuritis, which I am treating with intravenous medication.
I switched on the little light on the ophthalmoscope and peered into the depths of that most magical and delicate of all organs, down through the lens to the brilliant tapestry of the retina with its optic papilla and branching blood vessels.
I had checked it carefully a week before for phono and optic bugs and it had been clear.
Only the third now stared directly at the indefatigably advancing Drounge, peering into its seeping, pustulant optics, plainly sensible not only of its presence but of its bearing and appearance.
From military optics to annular optics to entrepreneurial optics to tennis-pedagogy to film.
For a moment, he sat perfectly still, feeling what it would be like for some Elder Architect or master torturer to twist a needle knife up the optic nerve of his eye into his brain.
In several of the cases reported the squint and optic atrophy and the amblyopia have pointed to the pituitary body as the seat of a new growth of hypertrophy.