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Definition of Optical device
1. Noun. A device for producing or controlling light.
Generic synonyms: Device
Lexicographical Neighbors of Optical Device
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 ..."