optical effects
Americanplural noun
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These materials can also produce new colors of light through nonlinear optical effects such as second-harmonic generation.
From Science Daily • Mar. 24, 2026
The enhanced clarity is why VistaVision hung on longer with the makers of old-school optical effects, serving as a workhorse for the original “Star Wars” trilogy and other pictures into the 21st century.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 12, 2025
Walk beneath a tower’s mirrored walls and into its inner sanctum, and assorted optical effects unfold overhead, bathing visitors in their unusual light.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 17, 2024
Though halos are not uncommon in the UK, the combination of other optical effects is more unusual.
From BBC • May 29, 2023
The beauty of natural crystals of transparent minerals is largely due to the optical effects which I have just been describing.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 1082, September 26, 1896 by Various
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