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Hypoarion :: Hypoarion (n.) An oval lobe beneath each of the optic lobes in many fishes; one of the inferior lobes.

Uniaxial :: Uniaxial (a.) Having but one optic axis, or line of no double refraction..

Omphaloptic :: Omphaloptic (n.) An optical glass that is convex on both sides.

Chromatrope :: Chromatrope (n.) A device in a magic lantern or stereopticon to produce kaleidoscopic effects.

Sciopticon :: Sciopticon (n.) A kind of magic lantern.

Ocular :: Ocular (a.) Of or pertaining to the eye; optic.

Scioptics :: Scioptics (n.) The art or process of exhibiting luminous images, especially those of external objects, in a darkened room, by arrangements of lenses or mirrors..

Enorthotrope :: Enorthotrope (n.) An optical toy; a card on which confused or imperfect figures are drawn, but which form to the eye regular figures when the card is rapidly revolved. See Thaumatrope..

Anisotropic :: Anisotropic (a.) Not isotropic; having different properties in different directions; thus, crystals of the isometric system are optically isotropic, but all other crystals are anisotropic..

Strockle :: Stroboscope (n.) An optical toy similar to the phenakistoscope. See Phenakistoscope.

Coptic :: Coptic (a.) Of or pertaining to the Copts.

Pebble :: Pebble (n.) Transparent and colorless rock crystal; as, Brazilian pebble; -- so called by opticians..

Autoptically :: Autoptically (adv.) By means of ocular view, or one's own observation..

Scioptric :: Scioptric (a.) Scioptic.

Glass :: Glass (v. t.) An optical glass; a lens; a spyglass; -- in the plural, spectacles; as, a pair of glasses; he wears glasses..

Ocular :: Ocular (n.) The eyepiece of an optical instrument, as of a telescope or microscope..

Photics :: Photics (n.) The science of light; -- a general term sometimes employed when optics is restricted to light as a producing vision.

Phantascope :: Phantascope (n.) An optical instrument or toy, resembling the phenakistoscope, and illustrating the same principle; -- called also phantasmascope..

Vision :: Vision (v.) The faculty of seeing; sight; one of the five senses, by which colors and the physical qualities of external objects are appreciated as a result of the stimulating action of light on the sensitive retina, an expansion of the optic nerve..

Optical :: Optical (a.) Of or pertaining to the eye; ocular; as, the optic nerves (the first pair of cranial nerves) which are distributed to the retina. See Illust. of Brain, and Eye..

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