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  • 21optical(s) — (or optical effects)   in film making, refers to a visual device, e.g., a fade, wipe, dissolve, superimposition, freeze frame, split screen, composite (a train reflection in a car window), or another effect, some of which can be created in the… …

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  • 22optical — [16] Greek optós meant ‘visible’ (it was presumably related to ophthalmós ‘eye’, source of English ophthalmic [17], and belonged to the general Indo European family of ‘eye’/‘see’ words – including English eye itself – that goes back to the base… …

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  • 23Optical tweezers — (originally called single beam gradient force trap ) are scientific instruments that use a highly focused laser beam to provide an attractive or repulsive force (typically on the order of piconewtons), depending on the refractive index mismatch… …

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  • 24Optical Express — Group Type Private Industry Healthcare Founded 1991 Founder(s) David Moulsdale Headqu …

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  • 25Optical coherence tomography — Intervention Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) image of a sarcoma MeSH …

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  • 26Optical disc — Optical media redirects here. For transmission media for light, see Medium (optics). The optical lens of a compact disc drive. In computing and optical disc recording technologies, an optical disc is a flat, usually circular disc which encodes… …

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  • 27Optical mapping — Optical mapping[1] is a technique for constructing ordered, genome wide, high resolution restriction maps from single, stained molecules of DNA, called optical maps . By mapping the location of restriction enzyme sites along the unknown DNA of an …

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  • 28Optical communication — is any form of telecommunication that uses light as the transmission medium. An optical communication system consists of a transmitter, which encodes a message into an optical signal, a channel, which carries the signal to its destination, and a… …

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  • 29Optical burst switching — (OBS) is an optical networking technique that allows dynamic sub wavelength switching of data. OBS is viewed as a compromise between the yet unfeasible full optical packet switching (OPS) and the mostly static optical circuit switching (OCS). It… …

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  • 30Optical disc recording technologies — Optical discs Optical disc Optical disc drive Optical disc authoring Authoring software Recording technologies Recording modes Packet writing Optical media types …

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