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optical.

Adjective
Sci-FiSettingTechnical
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Relating to light, vision, or instruments that manipulate light.

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  • optical system
  • optical fiber

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The optical system focused the beam.
Damage interrupted the optical fiber.

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Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Normally non-gradable as a technical classification. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.

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