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optic axes

optic axes is the plural of optic axis.

Meaning of optic axis

Noun

optic axis (plural optic axes)

  1. The optical axis.
    • [B]inocular creatures can in an instant […] move their eyes so as to direct the optick Axis to any point […].1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, section XXXIX
  2. The direction in which a ray of light passing through a crystal does not suffer double refraction.

Questions about optic axes

What is optic axes the plural of?
Optic axes is the plural of optic axis.

Words near optic axes in the dictionary

  1. opthalmologist
  2. opthalmology
  3. opthalmoscope
  4. opthamology
  5. optic
  6. optic axes
  7. optic axis
  8. optic chasm
  9. optic chiasm
  10. optic chiasma
  11. optic chiasms

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