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Optically

Optically \Op"tic*al*ly\, adv.

  1. By optics or sight.

  2. With reference to optics.

    Optically active, Optically inactive (Chem. Physics), terms used of certain isomeric substances which, while identical with each other in other respects, differ in this, viz., that they do or do not produce right-handed or left-handed circular polarization of light. See optical activity.

    Optically positive, Optically negative. See under Refraction.

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optically

adv. regarding or using optics

WordNet
optically

adv. in an optical manner; "optically distorted"

Usage examples of "optically".

This, then, served to make us aware that the way we apprehend things optically is the result of an interplay between our visual ray and the medium outside us which it meets.

This shows that the inner dynamic condition of the light-realm is altered in some way by being exposed to an optically resistant medium of prismatic shape.

His indication points to nothing less than a leading over of the optically produced spectrum from its usual linear form, with two boundaries on either side, into a closed circular form, and of doing this by an adequate application - as yet undiscovered - of magnetic force.

As such they represent metamorphoses, in the Goethean sense, of the levity-gravity interaction represented by the optically visible part of the spectrum.

Later, she made Tranquillity replay the moment countless times, the image from its optically sensitive cells in the mock-marble walls providing her a perfectly focused close up of the flattish planes which made up his face.

An optically impenetrable layer floating two kilometres above the ground.

The scene began to swim before her eyes, and as it did so a red border appeared superimposed across her optically enhanced vision.

The memory contents of the computer would he represented optically by black and clear checkerboard arrays where each square, being black or not, would represent the 1 and 0 of the binary number system which the machine uses.

Since it is so similar to correlation, it is performed optically just as the correlation is.

It appears that it may be possible to perform such huge operations as multiplication of arrays of numbers optically, all at once.

Optically sensitive cells protruding like blisters from its hull located the Romulus habitat, and the starship felt for its mass with a tiny ripple in the spacial distortion field its energy patterning cells were generating.

As such they represent metamorphoses, in the Goethean sense, of the levity-gravity interaction represented by the optically visible part of the spectrum.

The exterior of the spire was optically pure and had die same refractive index as Telaria's atmosphere.