Associations to the word «Optics»

Wiktionary

OPTICS, noun. (physics) The physics of light and vision.
OPTICS, noun. The light-related aspects of a device.
OPTICS, noun. (figuratively) Perception, image, public relations.
OPTICS, noun. Plural of optic

Dictionary definition

OPTICS, noun. The branch of physics that studies the physical properties of light.
OPTICS, noun. Optical properties; "the optics of a telescope".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope