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An optic (not to be confused with optics, the science of light) is a colloquial abbreviation of optical instrument, a device that changes the behavior or properties of light. A Fresnel lens, used in lighthouses, is a type of optic.
Optic may also refer to:
- Optic, an alcoholic spirits measure, a device for dispensing fixed amounts of alcoholic spirits
- Optic, a barley (Hordeum vulgare) cultivar
- OpTic Gaming, an American esports organization
OPTIC can refer to :
- Optimized Protocol for Transport of Images to Clients used by iCentrix's MarioNet split web browser
- OPTICS algorithm, an unsupervised learning clustering algorithm
Optics can refer to:
- In public relations, a neologistic term for the way something will be perceived
- In computer science, optics are a general class of bidirectional transformations