Optic vs Bose - What's the difference?
optic | bose |
Of, or relating to the eye or to vision.
* Milton
Of, or relating to optics or optical instruments.
An eye.
*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
*:The difference is as great between / The optics seeing, as the object seen.
*1819 , (Lord Byron), Don Juan , I:
*:how they, / Who saw those figures on the margin kiss all, / Could turn their optics to the text and pray, / Is more than I know
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*:Elbows almost touching they leaned at ease, idly reading the almost obliterated lines engraved there. ΒΆ ("I never) understood it," she observed, lightly scornful. "What occult meaning has a sun-dial for the spooney? I'm sure I don't want to read riddles in a strange gentleman's optics ."
A lens or other part of an optical instrument that interacts with light.
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, title= A measuring device with a small window, attached to an upside-down bottle, used to dispense alcoholic drinks in a bar.
To strike the ground with an object in order to determine, from the resulting sounds, what lies underground.
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As an adjective optic
is of, or relating to the eye or to vision.As a noun optic
is an eye.As a verb bose is
.optic
English
Alternative forms
* optick (obsolete) * optique (obsolete)Adjective
(-)- The moon, whose orb / Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views.
Noun
(en noun)Fenella Saunders, magazine=(American Scientist)
Tiny Lenses See the Big Picture, passage=The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct visual advantages. Such lenses can take in photons from a wide range of angles, increasing light sensitivity. They also have high spatial resolution, resolving incoming images in minute detail.}}
