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How to use the word optical in a Sentence?

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I think these are optical illusions, cerebral illusions.

– Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

More than 20 years ago, the Webb team set out to build the most powerful telescope that anyone has ever put in space and came up with an audacious optical design to meet demanding science goals, today we can say that design is going to deliver.

– Thomas Zurbuchen

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Excitement in astronomy in the last 70 years has been looking at different wavelengths, before that, all astronomy was done in optical( visible light) and looking at the universe in optical is like going to the symphony concert and only listening to one note. Now, we've got the whole symphony.

– George Rieke

Found on CNN
2 years ago

New Horizons provided us with a vantage point to measure the cosmic optical background better than anyone has been able to do it.

– Tod Lauer

Found on CNN
3 years ago

While the cosmic microwave background tells us about the first 450,000 years after the big bang, the cosmic optical background tells us something about the sum total of all the stars that have ever formed since then, it puts a constraint on the total number of galaxies that have been created, and where they might be in time.

– Marc Postman

Found on CNN
3 years ago

One of the main uses of ultra-black materials is to coat the inside of optical equipment to prevent stray light from bouncing around within it, as long as you can create a random array of these nanoparticles that are highly absorbing and the right size and shape, then you should be able to coat anything with it. So there's no need to create some detailed structure to make it work.

– Alexander Davis

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The science is how do I fuse them together? How do I take multiple optical, infrared, and electromagnetic sensors and use them all at once in real-time, if you are out in the desert in an operational setting, infrared alone may be constrained heat so you need all types of sensors together and machines can help us sift through information.

– Rickey Smith

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Guardian Optical Technologies’ sensor provides all the necessary information regarding the occupants, the number of occupants, where do they sit, what is their physical size, and what is their posture even.

– Gil Dotan

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

One challenging issue has always been switching from a rigid and hard cover glass protecting the current smartphones to a flexible and durable plastic cover protecting the flexible display, it needs to have superior optical properties and low reflectance like glass, and then also survive 50,000 or more opening and closing cycles.

– Raymond Soneira

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

As we’ve already seen with exfiltrated voter registration databases and the endless methods of poisoning manufacturer updates, manipulating DRE and optical scan machines and bypassing air gap defense, the state election official’s illusion of security is being pummeled by the reality of cyberattack.

– James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

added by anonymous
7 years ago

The city will also push forward the planning and construction of a maritime medical rescue center. Submarine optical cables will be laid and put into use this year, and Wi-Fi will cover all inhabited islands and reefs.

– Feng Wenhai

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The city will also push forward the planning and construction of a maritime medical rescue center. Submarine optical cables will be laid and put into use this year, and WiFi will cover all inhabited islands and reefs.

– Feng Wenhai

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We see continued support in exports of the electrical and electronic sector, chemicals, machinery appliances, optical equipment and manufactures of metal. This has more than offset the declines in commodity exports.

– Julia Goh

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

What we are seeing is a weak ringgit inflating the export growth figures, we see continued support in exports of the electrical and electronic sector, chemicals, machinery appliances, optical equipment and manufactures of metal. This has more than offset the declines in commodity exports.

– Julia Goh

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The anticompetitive conduct subject to fines in this case concerns agreements to collude in procurement tenders for optical disk drives for laptops and desktops produced by Dell and Hewlett Packard (HP).

– The European Commission

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

There is a lot of flexibility in how one can deploy this material, essentially, by taking the stickers and putting them all over yourself, you could look one way under optical visualization and another way under active infrared visualization.

– Alon Gorodetsky

Found on CNN
9 years ago

There is a lot of flexibility in how one can deploy this material, essentially, by taking the stickers and putting them all over yourself, you could look one way under optical visualization and another way under an active infrared visualization camera.

– Alon Gorodetsky

Found on CNN
9 years ago

It's an optical illusion on the second shot, it's uphill, but it looks downhill. It plays a fraction longer than you want it to. The stance you have wants you to hit a draw. But if you miss a shot with the ball above your feet, it's often to the right. And that's where all the trouble is.

– Geoff Ogilvy

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

The lens seems an interesting concept to provide optical magnification to the retina when required.

– James Wolffsohn

Found on CNN
9 years ago

People who have realized that this is a dream imagine that it is easy to wake up, and are angry with those who continue sleeping, not considering that the whole world that environs them does not permit them to wake. Life proceeds as a series of optical illusions, artificial needs and imaginary sensations.

– Alexander Herzen

added by anonymous
9 years ago

A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest--a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

– Albert Einstein

added by anonymous
13 years ago

A human being is part of a whole, called by us the 'Universe,' a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest--a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

– Albert Einstein

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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