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Coptic :: Coptic (a.) Of or pertaining to the Copts.

Zoetrope :: Zoetrope (n.) An optical toy, in which figures made to revolve on the inside of a cylinder, and viewed through slits in its circumference, appear like a single figure passing through a series of natural motions as if animated or mechanically moved..

Microscope :: Microscope (n.) An optical instrument, consisting of a lens, or combination of lenses, for making an enlarged image of an object which is too minute to be viewed by the naked eye..

Bisectrix :: Bisectrix (n.) The line bisecting the angle between the optic axes of a biaxial crystal.

Optic :: Optic (a.) An eyeglass.

Optical :: Optical (a.) Relating to the science of optics; as, optical works..

Illuminator :: Illuminator (v. t.) A condenser or reflector of light in optical apparatus; also, an illuminant..

Glass :: Glass (v. t.) An optical glass; a lens; a spyglass; -- in the plural, spectacles; as, a pair of glasses; he wears glasses..

Optical :: Optical (a.) Of or pertaining to vision or sight.

Scoptic :: Scoptic (a.) Alt. of Scoptica.

Perspicil :: Perspicil (n.) An optical glass; a telescope.

Phantasmagoria :: Phantasmagoria (n.) An optical effect produced by a magic lantern. The figures are painted in transparent colors, and all the rest of the glass is opaque black. The screen is between the spectators and the instrument, and the figures are often made to appear as in motion, or to merge into one another..

Autoptically :: Autoptically (adv.) By means of ocular view, or one's own observation..

Panopticon :: Panopticon (n.) A prison so contructed that the inspector can see each of the prisoners at all times, without being seen..

Scioptric :: Scioptric (a.) Scioptic.

#NAME? :: Subvaginal (a.) Situated under or inside a sheath or vaginal membrane; as, the subvaginal, or subdural, spaces about the optic nerve..

Eyepiece :: Eyepiece (n.) The lens, or combination of lenses, at the eye end of a telescope or other optical instrument, through which the image formed by the mirror or object glass is viewed..

Dioptrics :: Dioptrics (n.) The science of the refraction of light; that part of geometrical optics which treats of the laws of the refraction of light in passing from one medium into another, or through different mediums, as air, water, or glass, and esp. through different lenses; -- distinguished from catoptrics, which refers to reflected light..

Anorthoscope :: Anorthoscope (n.) An optical toy for producing amusing figures or pictures by means of two revolving disks, on one of which distorted figures are painted..

Sextant :: Sextant (n.) An instrument for measuring angular distances between objects, -- used esp. at sea, for ascertaining the latitude and longitude. It is constructed on the same optical principle as Hadley's quadrant, but usually of metal, with a nicer graduation, telescopic sight, and its arc the sixth, and sometimes the third, part of a circle. See Quadrant..

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