(British spelling) The transmission of light through fine flexible glass or plastic fibres, especially as a medium for communications networks.

Of, or relating to fibre optics, or to optical fibre.

The colours of the rainbow. / (physics) The distribution of colours produced when white light passes through a prism. / (astronomy, physics) The range of frequencies of visible light.

(physics) a property caused by asymmetrical molecular or crystal structure that enables a compound or crystal to rotate the plane of incident polarized light

(chemistry) Any one of a number of compounds that exhibit optical isomerism.

(British spelling) A thin, transparent, flexible fibre, made of glass or plastic, used for transmitting light.

(optics) A disk of high-quality quartz glass having at least one side ground and polished with a deviation in flatness less than 50 nanometers all over, and a surface quality of 5 microfinish or less; used, in an interferometer, to measure the flatness of other surfaces.

(physics) The general field of study that employs the wavelike character of neutrons.

An optical system in which prisms and/or mirrors are used to reduce the overall physical length of the system.

plural of optic cup