Optic
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Optic may mean:
- opticAlcoholic spirits measuresAlcoholic spirits measures are instruments designed to measure exact amounts or shots of alcoholic spirits.The Weights and Measures Act of 1963 made it illegal in Britain for businesses to give short weights or short measures to consumers...
, a British term for a device for dispensing fixed amounts of alcoholic spirits - OpticsOpticsOptics is the branch of physics which involves the behavior and properties of light, including its interactions with matter and the construction of instruments that use or detect it. Optics usually describes the behavior of visible, ultraviolet, and infrared light...
, the study of the behavior and properties of light - An optical element or component, such as a lensLens (optics)A lens is an optical device with perfect or approximate axial symmetry which transmits and refracts light, converging or diverging the beam. A simple lens consists of a single optical element...
, prismPrism (optics)In optics, a prism is a transparent optical element with flat, polished surfaces that refract light. The exact angles between the surfaces depend on the application. The traditional geometrical shape is that of a triangular prism with a triangular base and rectangular sides, and in colloquial use...
, or mirrorMirrorA mirror is an object that reflects light or sound in a way that preserves much of its original quality prior to its contact with the mirror. Some mirrors also filter out some wavelengths, while preserving other wavelengths in the reflection...