optic

Examples

• All

• It's two eyes at the bottom, optic nerve flowing out from the back.

• Just as travel along the optic nerve breaks the rush of light.

• The brain makes up a picture when it can't handle what the optic system sends it.

  Fiction book (2001)

• I've shown here the eyes, the optic nerve and tract.

• So that means we know that our eyes send optic nerves that Criss cross and that is there is a part of the brain called optic chaisma.

• Astronomers continue to work on the optics of the repaired Hubble Space Telescope.

  Academic text (1994)

• At the Haleakala Observatory, the adaptive optics system was used primarily in twilight hours.

  Academic text (1994)

• What is the defect in the HST optics that creates the stellar halo?

  Academic text (1990)

• Astronomers have compelling reasons to develop and maintain adaptive optics systems for ground-based telescopes.

  Academic text (1994)

• The doctor examined the patient's optic nerve to ensure there were no abnormalities.

Synonyms

E

eye

vsoptic

∞ 1.0

A part of the head that detects light and lets you see

refers more generally to the organ of sight without biological detail

O

oculus

vsoptic

9.9

A part of the body in the head that lets you see

has identical meaning but is a different lexical form

Compounds

F

fiber-optic

• Specialized

12 4.9

A device like a cable that uses thin glass threads to send light signals for fast communication

O

optic nerve

• Specialized

9 3.7

Part at the back of the eye that carries images to the brain

F

fiber optic cable

• Specialized

7 3.9

A thin glass or plastic cable that sends data as light

O

optic chiasm

• Specialized

1 8.6

An X-shaped part at the base of the brain where the eye nerves cross

O

optic disk

• Specialized

1 7.1

A round area at the back of the eye where the optic nerve enters and has no light-sensing cells

F

fiber optic microphone

• Specialized

7.8

A device that uses light in a thin glass fiber to sense sound

F

fiber-optic transmission system

• Specialized

4.3

A system that sends data as light through thin glass cables for very fast long-distance connections

O

optic axis

• Specialized

8.4

A line in a crystal, lens, or eye that lets light pass without splitting

O

optic chiasma

• Specialized

8.2

An X-shaped part at the base of the brain where the nerves from the two eyes cross

O

optic cup

• Specialized

8.4

A two-layer cup in a developing embryo that becomes the retina's dark and light-sensing layers

O

optic design

6.2

Visual look and placement of parts to change how people see it

O

optic lens

• Specialized

4.2

A curved piece of glass or plastic that helps you see things more clearly in instruments

O

optic radiation

• Specialized

8.4

A group of nerve fibers that carries sight signals to the part of the brain that sees

O

optic tract

• Specialized

6.4

Nerve fibers in the brain that carry signals from the eye to the visual area

Surface Forms

Etymology