Hypertext Webster Gateway: "optics"
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
optics
n : the branch of physics that studies the physical properties
of light
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