Definition of Photics

1. n. The science of light; -- a general term sometimes employed when optics is restricted to light as a producing vision.

Definition of Photics

1. Noun. The science of light. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Photics

1. the science of light [n]

Medical Definition of Photics

1. The science of light; a general term sometimes employed when optics is restricted to light as a producing vision. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Photics

phossy
phossy jaw
phosvitin
phosvitins
phot
phot-
photalgia
photaugiaphobia
photechic effect
photesthesia
photic
photic driving
photic stimulation
photic zone
photically
photics (current term)
photini
photinia
photinias
photino
photinos
photism
photisms
photo
photo-
photo-degradation
photo-electrotype
photo-engraving
photo-epinasty
photo-essay

Literary usage of Photics

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Christian Examiner (1849)
"And, if the word optics, in the sense of the science of light, be discarded, " photics " would seem more convenient than " photology," and quite as ..."

2. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1814)
"Its style, as photics justly observes, is adapted to the occasion, and remarkable for its simplicity and sweetness ; while the story is varied by dtt ..."

3. Comparative Politics: Six Lectures Read Before the Royal Institution in by Edward Augustus Freeman (1874)
"... who first had full citizenship voted to him, and then lost it on the ground of an informality in the vote. photics 2(J2 (p. ..."

4. Patristic Study by Henry Barclay Swete (1902)
"photics, Patriarch of Constantinople, gives a critical estimate of works, pagan or Christian, which he had read, many of which have long disappeared. ..."

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