microorganism
micro-organism | any organism of microscopic size |
camera lens
optical lens | a lens that focuses the image in a camera |
chip
microchip
micro chip
silicon chip
microprocessor chip | electronic equipment consisting of a small crystal of a silicon semiconductor fabricated to carry out a number of electronic functions in an integrated circuit |
condenser
optical condenser | lens used to concentrate light on an object |
detector
sensor
sensing element | any device that receives a signal or stimulus (as heat or pressure or light or motion etc.) and responds to it in a distinctive manner |
laser
optical maser | an acronym for light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation, an optical device that produces an intense monochromatic beam of coherent light |
| optical bench | apparatus for observation and measurement of optical phenomena |
| optical device | a device for producing or controlling light |
optical disk
optical disc | a disk coated with plastic that can store digital data as tiny pits etched in the surface, is read with a laser that scans the surface |
optical fiber
glass fiber
optical fibre
glass fibre | a very thin fiber made of glass that functions as a waveguide for light, used in bundles to transmit images |
| optical instrument | an instrument designed to aid vision |
optical pyrometer
pyroscope | a pyrometer that uses the color of the light emitted by a hot object |
| optical telescope | an astronomical telescope designed to collect and record light from cosmic sources |
prism
optical prism | optical device having a triangular shape and made of glass or quartz, used to deviate a beam or invert an image |
| distance | the property created by the space between two objects or points |
| mean distance | the arithmetic mean of the maximum and minimum distances of a celestial body (satellite or secondary star) from its primary |
focal distance
focal length | the distance from a lens to its focus |
| hyperfocal distance | the distance in front of a lens that is focused at infinity beyond which all objects are well defined and clear |
optical density
transmission density
photographic density
absorbance | (physics) a measure of the extent to which a substance transmits light or other electromagnetic radiation |
| distance length | size of the gap between two places, the distance from New York to Chicago, he determined the length of the shortest line segment joining the two points |
| skip distance | the shortest distance that permits radio signals (of a given frequency) to travel from the transmitter to the receiver by reflection from the ionosphere |
| distance vision | vision for objects that afeet or more from the viewer |
| middle distance | the part of a scene between the foreground and the background |
fusion
optical fusion | the combining of images from the two eyes to form a single visual percept |
long distance
long-distance call
trunk call | a telephone call made outside the local calling area, I talked to her by long distance |
distance
aloofness | indifference by personal withdrawal, emotional distance |
| distance | a distant region, I could see it in the distance |
marathoner
marathon runner
road runner
long-distance runner | someone who participates in long-distance races (especially in marathons) |
aberration
distortion
optical aberration | an optical phenomenon resulting from the failure of a lens or mirror to produce a good image |
| optical opacity | opacity to light |
| optical illusion | an optical phenomenon that results in a false or deceptive visual impression |
| optical phenomenon | a physical phenomenon related to or involving light |
| angular distance | the angular separation between two objects as perceived by an observer, he recorded angular distances between the stars |
| optical glass | clear homogeneous glass of known refractive index, used to make lenses |
optical crown
crown glass
optical crown glass | optical glass of low dispersion and low refractive index |
optical flint
flint glass | optical glass of high dispersion and high refractive index |
distance
space | the interval between two times, the distance from birth to death, it all happened in the space ofminutes |
| distance | a remote point in time, if that happens it will be at some distance in the future, at a distance of ten years he had forgotten many of the details |
microwave
micro-cook
zap
nuke | cook or heat in a microwave oven, You can microwave the leftovers |
outdistance
outstrip
distance | go far ahead of, He outdistanced the other runners |
stand back
keep one's eyes off
keep one's distance
keep one's hands off
stay away | stay clear of, avoid, Keep your hands off my wife!, Keep your distance from this man--he is dangerous |
| distance | keep at a distance, we have to distance ourselves from these events in order to continue living |
| long-distance | covering a long distance, a long-distance runner, a long-distance freight train, she ran off with a long-distance truck driver |
| micro | extremely small in scale or scope or capability |
| capacitive | of or relating to capacitance |
| long-distance | of or relating to or being a long-distance telephone call, a long-distance call, a long-distance transmission line, a long-distance operator |
| optical | of or relating to or involving light or optics, optical supplies |
| ocular optic optical visual | relating to or using sight, ocular inspection, an optical illusion, visual powers, visual navigation |
ocular
optic
optical
opthalmic | 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 |