Optical vs Optic - What's the difference?
optical | optic |
Of, or relating to sight; visual
Designed to assist or enhance sight
Of, or relating to optics
Of, or relating to visible light
Incorporating light-sensitive devices
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. ¶ ("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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Optic is a related term of optical.
As adjectives the difference between optical and optic
is that optical is of, or relating to sight; visual while optic is of, or relating to the eye or to vision.As a noun optic is
an eye.optical
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Strabismus is an optical defect.
- (rfex)
- A microscope is an optical instrument.
- Refraction is an optical effect.
- Optical telescopes don't work when it is cloudy.
- An optical switch opens the door automatically.
Anagrams
* *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.}}