How to Use optical in a Sentence

optical

adjective
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  • The company manufactures microscopes, telescopes, and other optical instruments.
  • If the optical zoom is important to you, the Pixel 7 Pro is the way to go.
    — Dave Leclair, PCMAG, 12 May 2023
  • And the optical nerve is about 20 megabytes per second.
    — TIME, 13 Feb. 2024
  • The core heart rate sensor on the SE is the same optical sensor found on the Series 6.
    — Jacob Krol, CNN Underscored, 29 Sep. 2020
  • The rear camera has jumped from 8 megapixels to 12, with no optical zoom.
    — Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 27 Oct. 2022
  • And its optical zoom that can go a wee bit further to bring your scene closer.
    — Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2020
  • The stars, gas, and dust that astronomers see with optical telescopes make up less than 10 percent the mass of the galaxy.
    — Tim Childers, Popular Mechanics, 11 Dec. 2020
  • The team made use of optical chips with channels that allowed photons to pass through.
    — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 10 July 2023
  • The researchers came up with the optical surface design of the nano camera.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 1 Dec. 2021
  • Through this great optical telescope he was said to have seen amazing sights on the moon’s surface.
    — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2022
  • The telescope is located on the island of Maui in Hawaii and is the largest optical solar telescope in the world.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN, 8 Dec. 2020
  • The Pro Max camera boasts a 5x optical zoom, and allows for 120mm focal length.
    — Byrachyl Jones, Fortune, 12 Sep. 2023
  • The mind’s eye, Hall is well aware, can be full of optical illusions and false promise.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 15 May 2021
  • The main camera keeps the 12-megapixel sensor and 2x optical zoom lens.
    — Jim Rossman, Dallas News, 17 Sep. 2020
  • From a dark site, the cluster is visible as a hazy patch to the naked eye, but urban dwellers can get a nice view with a bit of optical aid.
    — Geoff Chester, Washington Post, 1 June 2023
  • The telephoto lens now reaches even longer to give a true 2.5x optical zoom.
    — Popular Science, 10 Nov. 2020
  • Dumping the fuel appeared to be aimed at blinding the drone’s optical instruments to drive it from the area.
    — Karl Ritter, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Mar. 2023
  • The chain offers fresh food and a full-service deli as well as optical and tire services and on-site gas stations.
    — Leada Gore | Lgore@al.com, al, 15 Aug. 2022
  • Even in a digital-first world, optical disks like DVDs and Blu-rays still have their many uses.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Shapes ride flat on the painting’s surface, but a shallow optical space opens up.
    — Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2021
  • The camera can zoom to 2x with optical zoom, or 4x with digital zoom.
    — Christian De Looper, BGR, 1 June 2022
  • Some of the light from the fiber bounces back from the tissue, and those emissions are transmitted through the mirror and focused onto the optical sensor and the tube lens.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 8 Jan. 2024
  • The line of optical styles features sleek basics and statement shapes, which take cues from (and are named after) retro cars.
    — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 6 Oct. 2021
  • There are other great new features, though none as unique as the genuine optical zoom.
    — David Phelan, Forbes, 14 May 2022
  • Pros: 1080p sharp image, good microphones, AI to keep you in frame, good in low light. Cons: No optical zoom.
    — Jim Rossman, Dallas News, 10 June 2021
  • Because of the optical haze in Nube, Dr. Montes said, astronomers can see the shape of the dark-matter halo that underlies the dwarf galaxy.
    — Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2024
  • There are almost no other smartphones in the US with a 10x optical zoom camera.
    — WIRED, 27 Nov. 2022
  • That means a new story about the largest optical lens ever made, for example, and the entire camera will be the size of an SUV.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 10 Sep. 2020
  • That’s partly because its spectra in starlight cannot be seen in the optical wavelength, but only in the near-infrared or the ultraviolet.
    — Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2025
  • When fully assembled, M1 will be the largest mirror ever built for an optical telescope.
    — Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 19 Jan. 2025

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