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Definition

relating to sight or light

More rarely, optics can be used as a noun to denote a lens — such as is found in a microscope or camera.

an optical illusion

the optic nerve
fiber-optic cable to the home
corrected the Hubble telescope's optics
But, on the other hand, they connect diagonally, and the sprawling outlines run off in great slanting waves of optic horror, like a lot of wallowing seaweeds in full chase.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- The Yellow Wallpaper

optic = relating to sight

He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest—a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness.
Neal Shusterman -- Unwind
He fiddled with optical illusions, and took to wearing his shoes too small and his clothes too big.
Michael Lewis -- The Blind Side
Prisoner 66730 was instructed to report for an optical fitting at 6:30 the following morning.
Corrie ten Boom -- The Hiding Place
If it were his eyeballs only that were affected, or if his optic nerve were not wholly destroyed, the explanation was simple.
Jack London -- Sea Wolf
The hairpin crown was an optical illusion: it's just hair, graying and cropped short.
Margaret Atwood -- Cat's Eye
She focused on me as if I were a clever optical illusion.
Rick Riordan -- The Hidden Oracle
But as his brain swelled with internal bleeding, bone or bullet fragments that were in his eye severed his optic nerves.
Chris Kyle -- American Sniper
The train situation is not the same as an optical illusion.
Susanna Kaysen -- Girl Interrupted
Surveying instruments and helmet binoculars were all we turned up, plus optical instruments confiscated in Terran labs.
Robert A. Heinlein -- The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Finding clear evidence that the right eye's optic nerve has somehow been cut, he decides to reexamine.
Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard -- Killing Lincoln
At the time I will confess that I thought chiefly of the Philosophical Transactions and my own seventeen papers upon physical optics.
H.G. Wells -- The Time Machine
At first Vic thought he hadn't seen right; it was some sort of optical illusion.
Stephen King -- Cujo
It even got so that almost at will I could produce an optical illusion.
Robert Penn Warren -- All the King's Men
It's only an optical what-do-you-call-it.
C.S. Lewis -- Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia
Thelma was an optical illusion, a woman's head on top of a stepladder; and she had been golden-haired and young, and had smiled invitingly.
Eudora Welty -- The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty

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