Crossword clues for ocular
ocular
- Like some migraines
- Of the eyes
- Eyepiece, in jargon
- Visual
- Eye-related
- Telescope part
- Combination of lenses at the viewing end of optical instruments
- Of sight
- Compose carol about start of unity of vision
- Funny (not the first) thing astronomer looks into
- False religion briefly embroiled in row about vision
- Relating to eyes or vision
- Microscope part
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ocular \Oc"u*lar\, a. [L. ocularis, ocularius, fr. oculus the eye: cf. F. oculaire. See Eye, and cf. Antler, Inveigle.]
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Depending on, or perceived by, the eye; received by actual sight; personally seeing or having seen; as, ocular proof.
--Shak.Thomas was an ocular witness of Christ's death.
--South. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the eye; optic.
Ocular \Oc"u*lar\, n. (Opt.) The eyepiece of an optical instrument, as of a telescope or microscope.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1500, from Late Latin ocularis "of the eyes," from Latin oculus "an eye," from PIE root *okw- "to see" (cognates: Gothic augo, Old English eage "eye;" see eye (n.)). As a noun, 1835, from the adjective.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Of, or relating to the eye, or the sense of sight 2 resembling the eye 3 Seen by, or seeing with, the eye; visual n. 1 The eyepiece of a microscope or other optical instrument. 2 Any of the scales forming the margin of a reptile's eye.
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: optic, optical, opthalmic]
relating to or using sight; "ocular inspection"; "an optical illusion"; "visual powers"; "visual navigation" [syn: optic, optical, visual]
able to be seen; "be sure of it; give me the ocular proof"- Shakespeare; "a visual presentation"; "a visual image" [syn: visual]
n. combination of lenses at the viewing end of optical instruments [syn: eyepiece]
Wikipedia
Ocular is an adjective that refers to the eye, an organ of vision that detects light.
Ocular may also refer to:
- Eyepiece, the optical element closest to the eye in a telescope or microscope
- Ocular scale, a type of scales in reptiles
Usage examples of "ocular".
Perhaps whatever odd nature caused his strange ocular formation was part of why Ashe was hunted.
Now the two-legged monsters might well turn the whole effort into radioactive dust in less time than it took to slide a nictating membrane over a vision ocular.
Fits of deep melancholy alternated with bursts of Spanish boastfulness, utterly astonishing to the modest and soberminded Englishman, who would often have fancied him inspired by usquebaugh, had he not had ocular proof of his extreme abstemiousness.
Fits of deep melancholy alternated with bursts of Spanish boastfulness, utterly astonishing to the modest and sober-minded Englishman, who would often have fancied him inspired by usquebaugh, had he not had ocular proof of his extreme abstemiousness.
The weak rays of the sun still illuminated its mansard roofs and ocular windows.
Once his ocular program adjusted, he began to move through the wreckage, surveying the lab, his goal the multiphasic chamber only ten steps away.
Although you passed through our biofilters and took our vaccine, your ocular implants were bypassed.
Hence when the images of persons whom he knows to be dead appear to him in a dream, he naturally infers that these persons still exist somewhere and somehow apart from their bodies, of the decay or destruction of which he may have had ocular demonstration.
Jonston quotes an example of ocular menstruation in a young Saxon girl, and Bartholinus an instance associated with bloody discharge of the foot.
It was the bionic component of your ocular implants that became infected.
It seems, therefore, not improbable that the distension of the ocular vessels, thus induced, might act by reflection on the lacrymal glands--the effects due to the spasmodic pressure of the eyelids on the surface of the eye being thus increased.
Some people were taking pictures or making videos, some sat in floppy canvas deck chairs that crew members had brought outside once the rain stopped, and some scanned the spectacular scenery with powered oculars.
This distinctive ocular architecture allowed for more than three hundred degrees of uninterrupted vision, while the fore eye functioning in tandem with either of the others gave the creature excellent depth perception as well.
Sheila placed the jar on her desk and peered through the oculars of a binocular dissecting microscope.
His pupils were blown and his corneal and gag reflexes as well as ocular movement were all unresponsive.