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optical

If something is optical, it is related to sight, optics or visible light.

optical

of or relating to or involving light or optics optical supplies (= ocular, visual) relating to or using sight ocular inspection an optical illusion visual powers visual navigation (= ocular, optic) of or relating to or resembling the eye ocular muscles an ocular organ ocular diseases the optic (or optical) axis of the eye an ocular spot is a pigmented organ or part believed to be sensitive to light

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Simple sentences

My laptop doesn't have an optical disk drive.
That the moon appears larger close to the horizon than at the zenith is an optical illusion, the cause of which has not been definitively clarified.
It's an optical illusion.
Here's an optical illusion: you think you are looking at a cube, but in fact you are looking at the screen.
Here's an optical illusion: you think you are looking at a cube, while in fact you are looking at the screen.
Here's an optical illusion: you think you are looking at a cube, while in fact you are looking at your monitor.
Optical illusion makes the second object look larger than the first.
This is an optical illusion.

Movie subtitles

Sort of wondering if it was an optical illusion.
What about this optical illusion you slipped me?
Optical company in California.
Some sort of optical illusion, I suppose.
Because I know that the sunrise is an optical illusion.
Optical.
It's in plain view yet not to be seen, and optical tricks involved.
Well, you were right about that, sir. Supreme Optical and Medical Supply Company, three blocks down the line. They confirmed that.
Is it an optical illusion?
Not yet. I want improvements made to the optical systems and the sensory circuits.
I don't want a rumor, based on an optical illusion to spread in the fort.
Therefore, any officer on duty will verify that guards and sentries on duty at the outpost use only regular optical fieldglasses.
It's essentially an optical illusion.
It's probably an optical illusion or flying fatigue.
He goes into pigment research and optical density, which determines the degree of visibility of things.
The optical nerve must be hypersensitive.
IT WAS AN OPTICAL ILLUSION.
It's an optical illusion.
It's just an optical illusion.
A simple optical illusion.
Optical readers.
There's something about his optical nerves which aren't the same as a human's.
Didn't I tell you you're an optical delusion?
Does an optical illusion feel such a hungry yearning, burning inside of him?
Does an optical illusion feel the beat of the tom-tom in the roaring traffic's boom in his lonely room?
And, dear, I wonder if you find love An optical illusion too?
I know, comrade Krouchtchev, that this was an optical illusion, and, on the contrary, immense and irremediable is the abyss between us who fly the cosmos, and the billions of miserables attached to the earth like desperate insects.
There are optical illusions in time as well as in space.
Optical trickery so that you think you can see monsters. and a robot with claws so that you can see their effects.
Optical trickery?
I want improvements made to the optical systems and the sensory circuits.
This isn't just some optical illusion.
Perhaps he has eye for optical theory.
An engineer pulled out the isolinear optical chips from command.

News and current affairs

German precision instruments and optical equipment, for example, lost their competitive edge when Japan entered the game.
As recently as the 1980's, phone calls over copper wire could carry only one page of information per second; today, a thin strand of optical fiber can transmit 90,000 volumes in a second.
The signs of the fading miracle became visible when Japanese competitors and other Asian Tigers succeeded in wiping out substantial parts of Germany's labor-intensive textile, optical products, and precision engineering industries.
It is almost an optical illusion: looming on Japan's horizon, and on Europe's and on America's, is a pensions crisis.
For example, the mechanical industries in the Veneto and in Emilia led by Carararo, and Ducati, as well as the optical industry in the Northeast with Luxottica in the lead.

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