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Definition of Optically

1. Adverb. In an optical manner. "Optically distorted"

Definition of Optically

1. adv. By optics or sight; with reference to optics.

Definition of Optically

1. Adverb. regarding or using optics ¹

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Definition of Optically

1. [adv]

Medical Definition of Optically

1. By optics or sight; with reference to optics. Optically active, Optically inactive, terms used of certain metameric substances which, while identical with each other in other respects, differ in this, viz, that they do or do not produce right-handed or left-handed circular polarization of light. Optically positive, Optically negative. See Refraction. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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Literary usage of Optically

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

1. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"They are therefore optically ¡is well as crystallographically enantiomorph. But a solution of sodium chlorate is without action on the plane of polarization ..."

2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"They are therefore optically as well as crystallographically enantio- morph. Bat a solution of sodium chlorate is without action on the plane of ..."

3. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1908)
"By F. BUCKNEY, BA, Sidney Sussex College. (Communicated by Mr E 0. Jones.) [Read 11 March 1907.] A large number of optically active compounds of ..."

4. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1869)
"A liquid optically inactive hydrocarbon, boiling at 250°, and probably consisting ... It is an oil, having an aromatic odour, ¡i blue iridescence, optically ..."

5. The Chemical Constitution of the Proteins by Robert Henry Aders Plimmer (1908)
"J>CH COOH + CHCOOH \/ \/ NH NH E. THE optically ACTIVE AMINO ACIDS. ... By all these methods the optically active forms of the amino acids have been ..."

6. A Text-book of organic chemistry by Arnold Frederick Holleman (1913)
"When optically active lactic acids and other optically active substances are strongly heated, they are converted into the corresponding optically inactive ..."

7. An Introduction to Chemical Crystallography by Paul Groth (1906)
"Racemic and optically Active Compounds The crystallised racemic substances are molecular compounds which by solution or fusion become converted into a ..."

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