Synonyms for optics
ˈɒp tɪksop·tics

Princeton's WordNet

1. opticsnoun

   the branch of physics that studies the physical properties of light

2. opticsnoun

   optical properties

   "the optics of a telescope"

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1. • Physics
   • Property

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1. List of paraphrases for "optics":

   optical, optic, lens, perspective

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1. Julianne Smith:

   The fact that Tillerson will give that answer to Putin before he gives it to NATO is not the signal we want to be sending, we have a lot of skittish allies out there. The optics are all wrong, and unfortunately the optics matter.

2. Geoffrey Marcy:

   If the Milky Way actually has other intelligent species sending their spacecraft across the galaxy to settle around other stars on other planets, they might communicate using lasers, there could be a galactic Internet not borne by copper wires, not borne by fiber optics, but carried by laser beams crisscrossing the galaxy.

3. Barack Obama:

   Someone from Barack's administration might have said that the optics there were bad, that what the public saw didn't reflect the President's reality or ideals, but in this case, maybe it did, realizing it, I made my own optic adjustment. I stopped even trying to smile.

4. Paul Mangiamele:

   We’ll have a prime rib carving station and these big cast-iron doors where the prime rolls out, the optics will be impressive. It will smell great, look great, sound great.

5. Gawain Kripke:

   There is someone, a shareholder or management or an owner, who is literally making profit out of this humanitarian, altruistic motive on the part of everybody else involved. The optics aren't that great.