optical instruments

optical instruments
(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)
Devices for modifying vision
Nouns
1. optical instruments, [plano-convex or -concave, biconvex, converging or diverging miniscus, or biconcave] lens, achromatic lens; spectacles, glasses, bifocals, pince-nez, eyeglass, reading glasses, monocle, lorgnon, lorgnette, quizzing glass, goggles; aviator glasses, granny glasses, horn rims; Polaroid lenses, [hard or soft] contact lenses; sunglasses, dark glasses; spyglass, magnifying glass; opera glass[es], field-glass, binoculars; glass eye; telescope, periscope, spectroscope, microscope; optics, optometry. Slang, specs, cheaters, peepers, shades.
2. (reflecting device) mirror, glass, looking glass, pier glass, cheval glass, shaving mirror, girandole mirror, trumeau; reflection; optical fiber.
3. (recording or projecting device) camera, camera lucida, camera obscura; motion-picture camera; kinescope, television camera; stereoscope, stereopticon, viewer, magic lantern, kaleidoscope; projector.
4. optometrist; lens grinder; oculist, optician; microscopist, spectroscopist.
5. (light sensitive device) electric eye, photoelectric or photovoltaic cell.
Adjectives — optic[al], optometrical; microscopic, telescopic, stereoscopic, three-dimensional, 3-D; [be]spectacled, monocled.
Quotations — Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses (Dorothy Parker), Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size (Virginia Woolf).

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