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That branch of physical science which treats of the nature and properties of light, the laws of its modification by opaque and transparent bodies, and the phenomena of vision.

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  1. n. That branch of physical science which treats of the nature and properties of light, the laws of its modification by opaque and transparent bodies, and the phenomena of vision.
  2. n. the branch of physics that studies the physical properties of light
  3. n. optical properties
  4. That branch of physical science which treats of the nature and properties of light, the laws of its modification by opaque and transparent bodies, and the phenomena of vision.
  5. That branch of physical science which treats of the nature andproperties of light, the laws of its modification by opaque andtransparent bodies, and the phenomena of vision.
  6. n:100 n. the branch of physics that studies the physical properties of light n. optical properties