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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
optic
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
fibre optics
▪ fibre optic cables
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
cable
▪ He also seemed unaware of the great progress in laying fibre optic cable around the country, mainly between cities.
▪ Because fiber optic cable has a greater bandwidth capacity than coaxial cable, it can send more channels to subscribers' homes.
▪ If given the go-ahead, pictures from the wreck will be sent ashore by fibre optic cable to Liverpool by satellite.
▪ Experience suggests that the importance of fiber optic cable for international transmission is likely to grow.
▪ Katya braced herself and transferred her being over the fibre-optic cable.
▪ All the modules are linked using a redundant fibre optic cable.
lobe
▪ Links also occur between the two optic lobes and run from the medial part of the protocerebrum to each medulla separately.
▪ In the second paper, describes the discovery of a new class of neuron in the optic lobe of the dragonfly.
nerve
▪ The optic nerves were studied after 2 days.
▪ Frequent measurements of visual fields and acuity are obtained to detect optic nerve damage.
▪ In a, optic nerve sections were prepared as described in Fig. 1.
▪ They receive messages from virtually every nerve in the human body via connections with the optic nerve and spinal cord.
▪ The animals were sacrificed 60min later and optic nerve cell suspensions were prepared as previously described.
▪ A swollen optic nerve found by her optometrist led to the discovery of the tumor.
▪ The cup becomes the retina, and the stalk connecting it to the brain the optic nerve.
▪ Enough of the eye came free to please Magee, though, and he watched as it dangled on the optic nerve.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
optic nerves
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Cable television providers are either upgrading their coaxial cable or installing fiber optic links.
▪ Currently, there are more than 4,500 optics workers at Tucson's 136 optic firms.
▪ Links also occur between the two optic lobes and run from the medial part of the protocerebrum to each medulla separately.
▪ Neville rose from his seat and padded across the threadbare carpet to the whisky optic.
▪ The optic nerves were studied after 2 days.
▪ The optic sensors in his visor transmitted the scene through the suit's calculator directly to his brain.
▪ Today, most large-scale upgrades replace traditional components with fiber optic technology in the trunk sections of the network.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Optic

Optic \Op"tic\ ([o^]p"t[i^]k), n. [From Optic, a.]

  1. The organ of sight; an eye.

    The difference is as great between The optics seeing, as the object seen.
    --Pope.

  2. An eyeglass. [Obs.]
    --Herbert.

Optic

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.]

  1. 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.

  2. 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]

  3. 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.)

    1. 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.

    2. 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
optic

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
optic

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
optic
  1. 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]

  2. relating to or using sight; "ocular inspection"; "an optical illusion"; "visual powers"; "visual navigation" [syn: ocular, optical, visual]

optic

n. the organ of sight [syn: eye, oculus]

Wikipedia
Optic (disambiguation)

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.