How to Use optical in a Sentence

optical

adjective

• The company manufactures microscopes, telescopes, and other optical instruments.
• The researchers came up with the optical surface design of the nano camera.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 1 Dec. 2021
• The new matrix test, known as the cosmological optical theorem, soon proved its power.
  — Quanta Magazine, 10 Nov. 2021
• The payload has two optical modules, or telescopes, for receiving and transmitting laser signals.
  — Julia Musto, Fox News, 5 Dec. 2021
• Go all the way around and the wizard’s curtain is pulled back to reveal a surprising array of mechanisms that create the magical optical effects out front.
  — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2024
• Lothar Bottcher reimagines a smartphone as a slab of handcrafted glass, its smoothness broken up by bubblelike optical lenses and zigzagging lines.
  — Washington Post, 12 Nov. 2021
• But the weather made optical surveillance pointless, so Thorsen opened the window and started listening instead.
  — Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2024
• Both would use large, extremely clear mirrored optical telescopes, UV rays, and infrared to hunt for exoplanets with signs of water, oxygen, and ozone.
  — Chris Wright, Wired, 4 Nov. 2021
• The shadow world can be brought closer by employing 3x optical zoom plus 8x digital zoom, and digital anti-shake chops are also cooked in to help reduce motion blur.
  — Paul Ridden, New Atlas, 18 Sep. 2024
• The iPhone 13, by comparison, has 2X optical zoom out and digital zoom up to 5X.
  — Brian Barrett, Wired, 17 Nov. 2021
• Many wearables on the market today, like the Apple Watch or Fitbit, use optical sensors to measure a person’s heart rate and blood oxygen levels.
  — Maddie Bender, STAT, 20 Nov. 2021
• 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 rear camera has jumped from 8 megapixels to 12, with no optical zoom.
  — Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 27 Oct. 2022
• The team made use of optical chips with channels that allowed photons to pass through.
  — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 10 July 2023
• 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 Pro Max camera boasts a 5x optical zoom, and allows for 120mm focal length.
  — Byrachyl Jones, Fortune, 12 Sep. 2023
• 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
• 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 | [e-mail], 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
• 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
• There are other great new features, though none as unique as the genuine optical zoom.
  — David Phelan, Forbes, 14 May 2022
• 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
• The telephoto camera on the phones will be 10 megapixels, with 3x optical zoom.
  — Christian De Looper, BGR, 24 Jan. 2022
• The big news though is better optical zoom: 5X zoom, up from three-times zoom in previous Pro model.
  — WSJ, 12 Sep. 2023
• The eye had never been removed from the donor’s socket, and the surrounding tissue and the optical nerve remained intact.
  — Kaitlin Sullivan, NBC News, 9 Nov. 2023
• The main camera has optical image stabilization, which is good news for a phone in this price range.
  — Christian De Looper, BGR, 30 Aug. 2022

Last Updated: 1 Oct 2024