dioptrics
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of dioptrics
1635–45; see dioptric ( def. ), -ics
Example Sentences
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That part of optics which treats of the refraction of light; Ð commonly called dioptrics.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah
He applied this geometrical and inventive genius to dioptrics, which, when treated of by him, became a new art.
From Letters on England by Voltaire
In dioptrics, is a geometrical solid bounded by three parallelograms, whose bases are equal triangles.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir
Quinola Senor knows mechanics, ballistics, mathematics, dioptrics, catoptrics, statistics?
From The Resources of Quinola by Balzac, Honoré de
In 1604 he published “A Supplement to Vitellion,” containing the earliest known reasonable theory of optics, and especially of dioptrics or vision through lenses.
From Kepler by Bryant, Walter W. (Walter William)
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