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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 by Mihael...
- "The Grim Barbarity of Optics and Design" is the fifth episode of the American science fiction psychological thriller television series Severance. The...
- Hamiltonian optics and Lagrangian optics are two formulations of geometrical optics which share much of the mathematical formalism with Hamiltonian mechanics...
- 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...
- 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...
- Electro–optics is a branch of electrical engineering, electronic engineering, materials science, and material physics involving components, electronic...
- Quantum optics is a branch of atomic, molecular, and optical physics and quantum chemistry dealing with how individual quanta of light, known as photons...
- Atom optics (or atomic optics) "refers to techniques to mani****te the trajectories and exploit the wave properties of neutral atoms". Typical experiments...
- The angle of incidence, in geometric optics, is the angle between a ray incident on a surface and the line perpendicular (at 90 degree angle) to the surface...