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Branch of physics
Answer for the clue "Branch of physics ", 6 letters:
optics
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (label en physics) The physics of light and vision. 2 The light-related aspects of a device.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"science of sight and light," 1570s, from optic ; also see -ics . Used for Medieval Latin optica (neuter plural), from Greek ta optika "optical matters," neuter plural of optikos "optic."
Usage examples of optics.
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.
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.