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

Graphoscope :: Graphoscope (n.) An optical instrument for magnifying engravings, photographs, etc., usually having one large lens and two smaller ones..

Flint Glass :: Flint glass () A soft, heavy, brilliant glass, consisting essentially of a silicate of lead and potassium. It is used for tableware, and for optical instruments, as prisms, its density giving a high degree of dispersive power; -- so called, because formerly the silica was obtained from pulverized flints. Called also crystal glass. Cf. Glass..

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

Catoptrics :: Catoptrics (n.) That part of optics which explains the properties and phenomena of reflected light, and particularly that which is reflected from mirrors or polished bodies; -- formerly called anacamptics..

Eyepiece :: Eyepiece (n.) The lens, or combination of lenses, at the eye end of a telescope or other optical instrument, through which the image formed by the mirror or object glass is viewed..

Perspective :: Perspective (n.) Of or pertaining to the science of vision; optical.

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..

Autopsical :: Autopsical (a.) Pertaining to autopsy; autoptical.

Definition :: Definition (n.) Distinctness or clearness, as of an image formed by an optical instrument; precision in detail..

Optic :: Optic (a.) An eyeglass.

Scoptical :: Scoptical (a.) Jesting; jeering; scoffing.

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..

Dioptra :: Dioptra (n.) An optical instrument, invented by Hipparchus, for taking altitudes, leveling, etc..

Synosteology :: Synoptist (n.) Any one of the authors of the three synoptic Gospels, which give a history of our Lord's life and ministry, in distinction from the writer of John's Gospel, which gives a fuller record of his teachings..

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

Optician :: Optician (a.) One skilled in optics.

Asterism :: Asterism (n.) An optical property of some crystals which exhibit a star-shaped by reflected light, as star sapphire, or by transmitted light, as some mica..

Optician :: Optician (a.) One who deals in optical glasses and instruments.

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

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