optical instrument
collocation in Englishmeaningsofopticalandinstrument
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optical
adjective
uk/ˈɒp.tɪ.kəl/us/ˈɑːp.tɪ.kəl/
relating to light or the ability ...
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instrument
noun[C]
uk/ˈɪn.strə.mənt/us/ˈɪn.strə.mənt/
an object, such as a piano, guitar, or drum, that is played to produce ...
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(Definition ofopticalandinstrumentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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In general, a spectrophotometer is anopticalinstrumentfor measuring the change in light intensity with wavelength after the light has interacted with a sample.
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Briicke regarded the eye as anopticalinstrumentand the retina as an essential part of it.
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Theopticalinstrumentwhich we brought back here was only the beginning of a whole variety of instruments which we began to develop at very high speed.
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A number of pieces from hisopticalinstrumentcollection were placed on display there.
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The same type of mirror, when used in anopticalinstrument, is called a "half-silvered mirror" or beam splitter.
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The sextant, anopticalinstrument, is used to perform this function.
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His sound education in mathematics enabled him to apprentice using a borrowed theodolite, a calibratedopticalinstrumentused to determine relative position in surveying, navigation, and meteorology.
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Probably as a result of the gradual improvement of our optical instruments, the invisible companion became visible a few years ago (1862).
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There were limits to the improvements he and others could make to seventeenth-century optical instruments.
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The task of creating a community of microscope users demanded both a technical justification and a political defense of the knowledge produced with optical instruments.
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Man might see and understand these characters as well, but only by using and improving the new optical instruments and restoring his sight to its prelapsarian state.
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First, the need to anesthetize insects exemplified the reading required to use the microscope - knowledge that one could acquire only by actually using the new optical instruments.
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Such surfaces, for instance, are on the optical instruments and thermal control panels in satellites, or are parts of microelectronic circuits, or foodstuffs that become contaminated in food packaging.
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The first addressed problems concerning the use of the new optical instruments, the goals of observing, and the relationship among observers, the community of users, and nonusers.
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Crary describes the optical theory that optical instruments such as the stereoscope manifested.
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Rather, the practices for using optical instruments, especially the microscope, overcame problems related to the private quality of viewing objects with nonstandard optical instruments, while possessing a political component.
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These optical instruments are changing from day to day.
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