OPTICAL in a Sentence

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12 example sentences for OPTICAL, such as:

1. His doctor checked the optical axis of the eye very carefully.
2. Sloping walls on the bulk of the building create an optical illusion.
3. Einstein's new theory on optics changed classical scientific ideas about light.
4. The use of fibre optics has served to increase the volume and speed of data transmission.
5. Yet those same bleared optics had a strange, penetrating power, when it was their owner's purpose to read the human soul.

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 Meanings and Examples of OPTICAL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
optical
 a.  of or relating to or involving light or optics
Classic Sentence:
1  Cosette was by his side, she seemed to be his; an optical illusion which every one has experienced.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 15: CHAPTER I—A DRINKER IS A BABBLER
2  He believed in the straight line; a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—IN WHICH THE TREE WITH THE ZINC PLASTER APPEARS...
3  Once there appeared a strange optical effect: when he stood between me and the flame he did not obstruct it, for I could see its ghostly flicker all the same.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
4  Yet those same bleared optics had a strange, penetrating power, when it was their owner's purpose to read the human soul.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In II. THE MARKET-PLACE
5  At the time I will confess that I thought chiefly of the Philosophical Transactions and my own seventeen papers upon physical optics.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In VIII
Example Sentence:
1  Sloping walls on the bulk of the building create an optical illusion.
2  Others use optical detectors, which seem to respond more quickly to smoke from smouldering fires such as those involving upholstered furniture.
3  Another scientist might have proposed a modification in the optical theory governing the operation of the telescopes used in the investigation.
4  His doctor checked the optical axis of the eye very carefully.
5  If such materials became generally available to the optics industry the payoffs from such a breakthrough would be enormous.
6  The use of fibre optics has served to increase the volume and speed of data transmission.
7  Einstein's new theory on optics changed classical scientific ideas about light.