Definition of Optical device

1. Noun. A device for producing or controlling light.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Optical Device

optic tectum
optic tract
optical
optical aberration
optical activity
optical antipode
optical art
optical astronomy
optical axis
optical bench
optical character recognition
optical condenser
optical crown
optical density
optical device (current term)
optical diffraction
optical disc
optical discs
optical disk
optical double
optical drive
optical fiber
optical fibers
optical fibre
optical flat
optical flint
optical fusion
optical illusion

Literary usage of Optical device

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Scientific Papers by John William Strutt Rayleigh (1903)
"ON AN optical device FOR THE INTENSIFICATION OF PHOTOGRAPHIC PICTURES. [Philosophical Magazine, XLIV. pp. 282—285, 1897.] WHETHER from insufficient exposure ..."

2. Digest of Education Statistics (1999) edited by Thomas D. Snyder (2000)
"WARNING Using goggles to look through a magnifying optical device may not provide sufficient ... The laser energy that enters a direct-view optical device ..."

3. Deconstructing the Computer: Report of a Symposium by Dale Weldeau Jorgenson, Charles W. Wessner (2005)
"Predicting that the optical device's future would be as “the next floppy,” he remarked that after a long tenure the floppy was dead—PCs were being shipped ..."

4. Electrical Illuminating Engineering by William Edward Barrows (1908)
"A translucent plate A receives the light to be measured and is viewed through the optical device H and the prism B. The comparison lamp C is a benzine lamp ..."

5. Measurements for Competitiveness in Electronics (1994)
"The element providing the sensing function may be built into the optical fiber itself or it may be located in a special optical device attached to the end ..."

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