optically
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optically (not comparable)
- Regarding or using optics.
- 1984 May 6, Hans Fantel, “These Cameras Have Shrunk but Their Capabilities Have Grown”, in The New York Times[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 May 2015:
- The picture is seen optically through the lens, as in many photo cameras.
- 2015, Istvan Hargittai, Balazs Hargittai, Science of Crystal Structures: Highlights in Crystallography, →ISBN, page 183:
- The microscopically small crystals often obtained by very rapid cooling of the hot solution, appeared to be no crystals of the optically active form either; they were rhombic individuals exhibiting prismatic, domatic and basal facets, of a new hydrate of the racemic compound, probably at higher temperatures stable, and containing less water of crystallization.
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