OPTICS


Meaning of OPTICS in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

fibre optics

fibre optic cables

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

fiber

To head off competition, the telcos have invested heavily in fiber optics and sophisticated switching technology.

But fiber optics may change all that.

It was into bioengineering, lasers, fiber optics .

Internet connections expanding by 15 percent a month. Fiber optics transmitting 40 billion bits of data per second.

The advent of fiber optics in the early 1980s, however, changed the role of satellites in the global communications industry.

fibre

Measuring current with light Another area of activity for King's is in fibre optics .

DONs can be a fast way of establishing links between major conurbations, often by means of fibre optics .

The DoI runs a mass of schemes to support research in particular areas, ranging from robots to fibre optics .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

About 25 percent of these are New Economy companies, with only five involved directly in optics .

All the substrates and optics for Mr Urvill's telescope were made here.

But fiber optics may change all that.

Currently, there are more than 4,500 optics workers at Tucson's 136 optic firms.

Heat had intimate links with chemistry, and optics with astronomy.

His optics are internationally recognised to be of the highest quality.

It was into bioengineering, lasers, fiber optics .

When we calculate the uncertainty in position, Ax, we use formulae for resolving power which are derived from wave optics .

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