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optical Definition

op·ti·cal (äp′ti kəl)

adjective

  1. of or connected with the sense of sight; visual; ocular
  2. of the relation between light and vision
  3. having to do with optics
  4. for aiding vision

optical Related Forms
op′·ti·cally adverb
optical Synonyms

optical

modif.

ocular, seeing, visible; see visual.

optical Telecom Definition
In physics, relating to the study of light in the infrared (IR), visible, and ultraviolet (UV) regions of the electromagnetic spectrum. See also electromagnetic spectrum, IR, light, UV, and visible light.
optical Usage Examples

Infinitive complement

  • coax: Digital audio cross conversion - coax to optical and optical to coax.

Modifies a noun

  • zoom: In the first example standard optical zoom has been used to the maximum 3x.
  • illusion: Optical Illusion - John Langdon, 1999 Can you see why this painting is called optical illusion?
  • fiber: The Optical Fiber An optical fiber is a solid rod of glass, finer than a strand of human hair.
  • lens: The optical lens of the video camera focuses the image on the chip mounted behind the lens.
  • microscopy: Scanning electron microscopy ( SEM ) is used like optical microscopy to show the topological features of surfaces.
  • viewfinder: There is also an optical viewfinder for composing pictures.

Modifying Another Word

  • only: Eventually, the Biogon was the only optical product in the world that still required it.
  • all: This all optical computing, or ` light controlling light ' has remained a dream of technologists for some time.
  • however: However optical quality is poor compared with the sort of magnifiers commonly used to access print.

Used with adjective complement

  • include: Those include optical, scanning and transmission electron microscopes.
optical Quotes

In fact we do not try to picture the afterlife, nor is it our selves in our nervous tics and optical flecks that we wish to perpetuate; it is the self as the window on the world that we can't bear to thinkof shutting.

—Updike,John Hoyer

Le vers est la forme optique de la pense¤  e.Voila'   pourquoi il convient surtout a'   la perspective sce¤  nique. Verse is the optical form of thought. That is the reason a scenic perspective suits it.

—Hugo,Victor Marie