optics : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: optics	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for optics
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
optics n the branch of physics that studies the physical properties of light optical properties; "the optics of a telescope"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.