noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
fibre optics
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fibre optic cables
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
fiber
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To head off competition, the telcos have invested heavily in fiber optics and sophisticated switching technology.
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But fiber optics may change all that.
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It was into bioengineering, lasers, fiber optics .
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Internet connections expanding by 15 percent a month. Fiber optics transmitting 40 billion bits of data per second.
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The advent of fiber optics in the early 1980s, however, changed the role of satellites in the global communications industry.
fibre
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Measuring current with light Another area of activity for King's is in fibre optics .
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DONs can be a fast way of establishing links between major conurbations, often by means of fibre optics .
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The DoI runs a mass of schemes to support research in particular areas, ranging from robots to fibre optics .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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About 25 percent of these are New Economy companies, with only five involved directly in optics .
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All the substrates and optics for Mr Urvill's telescope were made here.
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But fiber optics may change all that.
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Currently, there are more than 4,500 optics workers at Tucson's 136 optic firms.
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Heat had intimate links with chemistry, and optics with astronomy.
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His optics are internationally recognised to be of the highest quality.
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It was into bioengineering, lasers, fiber optics .
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When we calculate the uncertainty in position, Ax, we use formulae for resolving power which are derived from wave optics .