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Definition: Optic |
OpticAdjective1. Of or relating to or resembling the eye; "ocular muscles"; "an ocular organ"; "ocular diseases"; "the optic (or optical) axis of the eye"; "an ocular spot is a pigmented organ or part believed to be sensitive to light". 2. Relating to or using sight; "ocular inspection"; "an optical illusion"; "visual powers"; "visual navigation". Noun1. The organ of sight (`peeper' is an informal term for `eye'). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "optic" was first used: sometime in the early 15th century. (references) |
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Post & Telecom | A system of several lens panels. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
OPTIC | English | Operational performance and technical information console | Computing, Mining |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: OpticSynonyms: ocular (adj), opthalmic (adj), optical (adj), visual (adj), eye (n), oculus (n), peeper (n). (additional references) |
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 | Pictured is a proton beam from the brain during CT scans. Using dozens of CT slices, a computer produced this three-dimensional representation of the eyes and optic nerves (blue and green). The brain stem (green) , and the tumor (red). The yellow line shows the proton beam field-shaping aperture. Credit: unknown photographer. |  | Note the typical features of neuro-ocular syphilis, which includes severe optic nerve atrophy, and chorioretinitis, or inflammation of the choroidal and neural layers of the retina. Credit: CDC. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Optic mouse" by Sebastian Mey - KrippsDesign Commentary: "That's my optic mouse." | "Mouse," by Xavier Ruiz Commentary: "Logitech optic mouse." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | A healthy optic nerve is necessary for good vision. (references) | |
Optic atrophy may also occur, often leading to blindness. (references) | ||
The optic nerve is a bundle of more than 1 million nerve fibers. (references) | ||
Business | More than 5,175 kilometers of fiber optic cable have been deployed in Mexico. (references) | |
The fiber optic network consists of 4,200 km of fiber and digital microwave communication lines. (references) | ||
The company is proud to be the pioneer in using fiber- optic technology for the cable TV industry. (references) | ||
Economic History | Panama | Panama is also becoming a hub for submarine fiber optic cables. (references) |
Canada | Fiber optic cable and wireless are particularly strong subsectors. (references) | |
Pakistan | It owns a PDH based fiber optic backbone transmission network in the country. (references) | |
Travel | Nicaragua | Nicaragua's communication system (telephone, telex, etc.) is being updated with the installation of fiber optic technology. (references) |
Indonesia | Phone service is good along the main business thoroughfares and the newer residential areas, which are served by fiber optic trunk lines. (references) | |
Thailand | Thailand's economic plunge in 1997 caused a sharp decline in the demand for telecommunications services that included landline telephone, cellular phone, radio communications, paging, and VSAT services . Consequently, planned investments in the expansion of 6 million landline telephones and cellular phones in the radio frequency ranges of 1500 and 1900-megahertz have been deferred . However, the installation of rural public long distance telephone lines and the installation of submarine fiber optic cable were not affected by the economic crisis. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Optic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 97.41% of the time. "Optic" is used about 193 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 97.41% | 188 | 22,417 |
| Noun (singular) | 2.59% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 193 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| USA | Alliance Fiber Optic Products Inc. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "optic": atrophy of the optic nerve ♦ avulsion of the optic nerve ♦ Dispersion of the optic axes ♦ excavation of papilla of optic nerve ♦ fiber optic cable ♦ fiber optic cladding ♦ fiber optic dispersion ♦ fiber Optic InterRepeater Link ♦ fibre optic ♦ fibre optic cable ♦ fibre optic cladding ♦ fibre optic dispersion ♦ glaucomatous excavation of papilla of optic nerve ♦ malacia of the optic nerve opticomalacia ♦ neuritis of the optic nerve ♦ optic angle ♦ optic aphasia ♦ optic atrophy ♦ optic axis ♦ optic axis of a crystal ♦ Optic Chiasm ♦ optic chiasma ♦ optic cup ♦ Optic disc ♦ Optic Disk ♦ Optic Disk Drusen ♦ optic evagination ♦ Optic Lobe ♦ Optic nerve ♦ Optic Nerve Diseases ♦ Optic Nerve Glioma ♦ Optic nerve head ♦ Optic Nerve Injuries ♦ Optic Nerve Neoplasms ♦ optic neuritis ♦ optic pedestal ♦ optic pedicle ♦ optic reader ♦ optic stalk ♦ optic thalamus ♦ optic tract ♦ optical optic ♦ vagina of the optic nerve vaginae nervi optici. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "optic": optic-glasses. | |
Ending with "optic": magneto-optic. | |
Containing "optic": fiber-optic transmission system, fibre-optic transmission system. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "optic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | optik (optical, visual), i të pamit, i syrit (ocular, ophthalmic, orbital). (various references) | |
Arabic | عيني (concrete, corporeal, ophthalmic), العين (eye, spy, stool pigeon), بصري (ocular, optical, visual). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | очен (eye, ocular), око (eye, orb, speculum, winker), оптичен (optical), зъркел (peeper), зрителен (ocular, optical, visional, visionary, visual), леща (amplifier, lens, lentil). (various references) | |
Chinese | 视觉 (Ocular, Vision, Visual). (various references) | |
Czech | optický (optical, visual), oèní (ocular, ophthalmic, optical), zrakový (ocular, optical, visional, visual). (various references) | |
Danish | optisk (optical optic, visual). (various references) | |
Dutch | optisch (optical optic, visual), optiek (optics), geslepen spiegel, geblazen optiek. (various references) | |
Farsi | چشمی (Ocular), چشم (Eye, Shiner, Sight), وابسته به بیناءی , شیشه عینک (Pebble), بصری (Ocular, Visual). (various references) | |
Finnish | optinen. (various references) | |
French | optique (optical, optics). (various references) | |
German | optisch (optical, optically, visual). (various references) | |
Greek | καλούπι για οπτικά, οπτικόσ (optical, optician, visual), οπτικός (optician, visual), οπτική (optics), οφθαλμόσ (eye). (various references) | |
Hungarian | látási (optical, visual). (various references) | |
Italian | ottico (optical, optician). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 視神経 (optic nerve), 光覚 (optic or photic sense). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ししんけい (dental nerve, optic nerve), こうかく (anat promontory, angle of intersection, carapace, corners of the mouth, crust, demotion, high shelf, high-angle, optic or photic sense, promontory, shell, tall building, wide-angle). (various references) | |
Korean | 눈 (Eye, eyes, Ocular, snow, snowy). (various references) | |
Manx | sooillag (eyelet, grummet, lens, loophole, pore), shilleydagh (optical), reayrtoil (optical). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | opticay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | olho (lamp, orb, peeper), sopragem em balão, relativo ao olho, ótico (optical, optician, visual), óptico (optical, optician, visual), óptico. (various references) | |
Romanian | optic (optical, visional, visual), ocular (eye, eye-glass, eyepiece, ocular, optical), ochi (aim, cover, covet, eyes, Gemma, glade, glances, link, loop, mesh, orb, peeper, pink, pip, ring, scan, sight, stitch, suspect, take aim at, take sight, train, vortex). (various references) | |
Russian | оптический (optical, visual). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | optički (optical, perspective), očni (ocular, ophthalmic, optical), vidani (optical). (various references) | |
Spanish | óptico (optical, optician). (various references) | |
Swedish | optisk. (various references) | |
Thai | เกี่ยวกับสายตา (ocular, optical, optically). (various references) | |
Turkish | optik (optical, optics, visual), göz (blinker, cell, compartment, Cubby, cubbyhole, cubicle, cuddy, drawer, eye, eyehole, glim, ocular, ophthalmic, optical, opto-, orb, orbit, orbital, peeper, sight). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | очний (ocular, ophthalmic, orbital), око (eye, ocular, oculus, orb, winker), зоровий (optical, visual). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | optikos. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | opticus. (various references) |
| Medieval Latin | 700-1500 | opticus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "optic": optical, optically, optician, opticians, opticist, opticists, optics. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "optic": bioptic, fiberoptic, panoptic, suboptic, supraoptic, synoptic. (additional references) | |
Words containing "optic": fiberoptics, stereopticon, stereopticons, synoptical, synoptically. (additional references) | |
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"Optic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: copti, coptic, eptic, fotic, oetic, ontic, opcit, ophis, opic, opit, Opitiis, Opta, opte, Optech, Optek, optex, opti, optia, Optica, Optika, optim, optio, optis, Optisk, optus, ortic, Osti, otec, oti, pontic, Potacki, poti, potice, potico, Potok, ptik, uptic, zoptic. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "optic" (pronounced Ä"ptik) |
| 4 | -p t i k | antiseptic, apocalyptic, cryptic, ecliptic, epileptic, fiberoptic, peptic, septic, skeptic, triptych. |
| 3 | -t i k | acetic, acoustic, acrobatic, aerobatic, aesthetic, agnostic, alphabetic, altruistic, amniotic, anachronistic, analytic, anesthetic, antagonistic, Antarctic, antibiotic, antic, anticlimactic, aortic, apathetic, apologetic, apoplectic, aquatic, arctic, aristocratic, arithmetic, aromatic, arthritic, artistic, ascetic, asthmatic, astronautic, asymptomatic, atavistic, atheistic, athletic, attic, authentic, autistic, autocratic, automatic, axiomatic, ballistic, bombastic, bureaucratic, capitalistic, catalytic, cathartic, caustic, chaotic, characteristic, charismatic, chauvinistic, chiropractic, cinematic, climactic, climatic, coloristic, cosmetic, critic, cultic, cystic, democratic, dendritic, despotic, deterministic, diabetic, diagnostic, diagrammatic, dialectic, diamagnetic, didactic, dietetic, diplomatic, diuretic, dogmatic, domestic, dramatic, drastic, drumstick, dualistic, dynastic, ecclesiastic, eclectic, ecstatic, elastic, electrolytic, electromagnetic, electrostatic, emblematic, emetic, empathetic, emphatic, energetic, enigmatic, enthusiastic, enzymatic, epigenetic, erotic, erratic, euphemistic, evangelistic, exotic, expressionistic, extragalactic, fanatic, fantastic, fatalistic, ferromagnetic, feudalistic, frantic, frenetic, futuristic, galactic, genetic, geomagnetic, gigantic, granitic, gymnastic, halophytic, hectic, hedonistic, hemolytic, hepatic, heretic, hermaphroditic, holistic, homeostatic, homiletic, humanistic, hyperkinetic, hypnotic, iconoclastic, idealistic, idiomatic, idiosyncratic, idiotic, imperialistic, impressionistic, individualistic, inelastic, interscholastic, jingoistic, journalistic, kinesthetic, kinetic, lactic, legalistic, linguistic, logistic, lymphatic, magnetic, majestic, masochistic, materialistic, mathematic, mechanistic, melodramatic, militaristic, monastic, monochromatic, monopolistic, moralistic, mystic, narcissistic, narcotic, nationalistic, naturalistic, neritic, neurotic, novelistic, numismatic, oligopolistic, onomastic, operatic, opportunistic, optimistic, orthodontic, pancreatic, pantheistic, paralytic, paramagnetic, parasitic, parasympathetic, parthenogenetic, paternalistic, pathetic, patriotic, patristic, pectic, pedantic, peripatetic, pessimistic, phonetic, phosphatic, plastic, pluralistic, pneumatic, poetic, polytheistic, porphyritic, posttraumatic, pragmatic, primitivistic, prismatic, problematic, programmatic, propagandistic, prophetic, prophylactic, prostatic, prosthetic, psychoanalytic, psychosomatic, psychotherapeutic, psychotic, puristic, quixotic, realistic, relativistic, rheumatic, ritualistic, robotic, romantic, rustic, sadistic, sarcastic, schematic, scholastic, semantic, semiautomatic, semiotic, sensationalistic, simplistic, socialistic, static, statistic, stylistic, surrealistic, sycophantic, symbiotic, sympathetic, symptomatic, synergistic, synthetic, systematic, tactic, technocratic, terroristic, thematic, theocratic, therapeutic, thermoplastic, thrombolytic, transatlantic, traumatic, unapologetic, unauthentic, uncharacteristic, undemocratic, undiplomatic, unenthusiastic, unpatriotic, unrealistic, unsympathetic, voyeuristic. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: picot, topic. | |
| Words within the letters "c-i-o-p-t" | |
-1 letter: otic, topi. | |
-2 letters: cop, cot, opt, pic, pit, poi, pot, tic, tip, top. | |
-3 letters: it, op, pi, ti, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-i-o-p-t" | |
+1 letter: atopic, octopi, optics, photic, picots, poetic, ptotic, topics, tropic. | |
+2 letters: aphotic, apomict, apricot, aprotic, bioptic, capitol, caption, coalpit, cockpit, copilot, copyist, ectopia, ectopic, entopic, metopic, nepotic, occiput, opacity, ophitic, optical, paction, parotic, photics, picoted, picotee, poditic, poetics, politic, portico, potamic, potiche, psoatic, tapioca, topical, topkick, trophic, tropics. | |
+3 letters: apomicts, apricots, atrophic, autopsic, biotypic, capitols, captions, captious, coalpits, coapting, cockpits, colpitis, compting, coopting, cooption, copilots, copyedit, copyists, coscript, depictor, despotic, dioptric, ecotypic, ectopias, entropic, epicotyl, epidotic, epitomic, euphotic, helicopt, hoplitic, hypnotic, impactor, inceptor, isotopic, isotypic, kyphotic, leprotic, leptonic, lipocyte, lopstick, occipita, occiputs, oophytic, operatic, optician, opticist, outpitch, outprice, pactions, panoptic, pentomic, peptonic, periotic, petrolic, phimotic, phonetic, photonic, photopic, phytonic, picotees, picoting, piscator, pitchout, platonic, plutonic, pockiest, poetical, politick, politico, politics, pontific, poplitic, porticos, postiche, potassic, potiches, poultice, protatic, protonic, psilotic, pycnotic, pyknotic, pythonic, scotopia, scotopic, spiccato, strophic, suboptic, subtopic, synoptic, tapiocas, tipstock, toepiece, topkicks, tripodic, tropical, typhonic, unpoetic. | |
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