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Definition of OPTICS

Optics
Optics Op"tics, n. [Cf. F. optique, L. optice, Gr. ? (sc. ?). See Optic.] That branch of physical science which treats of the nature and properties of light, the laws of its modification by opaque and transparent bodies, and the phenomena of vision.

Meaning of OPTICS from wikipedia

- Optics is the branch of physics that studies the behaviour and properties of light, including its interactions with matter and the construction of instruments...
- Ordering points to identify the clustering structure (OPTICS) is an algorithm for finding density-based clusters in spatial data. It was presented in 1999...
- "The Grim Barbarity of Optics and Design" is the fifth episode of the American science fiction psychological thriller television series Severance. The...
- Electro–optics is a branch of electrical engineering, electronic engineering, materials science, and material physics involving components, electronic...
- Nonlinear optics (NLO) is the branch of optics that describes the behaviour of light in nonlinear media, that is, media in which the polarization density...
- Hamiltonian optics and Lagrangian optics are two formulations of geometrical optics which share much of the mathematical formalism with Hamiltonian mechanics...
- In optics, a ray is an idealized geometrical model of light or other electromagnetic radiation, obtained by choosing a curve that is perpendicular to the...
- Optics (Ancient Gr****: Ὀπτικά) is a work on the geometry of vision written by the Gr**** mathematician Euclid around 300 BC. The earliest surviving m****cript...
- Geometrical optics, or ray optics, is a model of optics that describes light propagation in terms of rays. The ray in geometrical optics is an abstraction...
- geometrical optics in the Greco-Roman world. The word optics is derived from the Gr**** term τα ὀπτικά meaning 'appearance, look'. Optics was significantly...