optical center
Americannoun
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Located on West Ventura Boulevard between Highway 101 and the Camarillo Airport, the 160,000-square-foot warehouse will have a food court, bakery, pharmacy, optical center, hearing aid center and tire service center.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026
Scientists believe high-energy cosmic rays impacting on the eye's retina or the brain's optical center cause the flashes.
From Time Magazine Archive
The most convenient ray to choose would be one passing through O, the optical center of the lens, because such a ray passes through the lens unchanged in direction, as is clear from Figure 74.
From General Science by Bertha M. Clark
Upon placing the guillotine shutter in the optical center of the objective, what will occur?
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 430, March 29, 1884 by Various
Yes; it is easy to understand that for the same time of exposure, and consequently for the same result, the aperture may be so much the smaller in proportion as the optical center is approached.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 430, March 29, 1884 by Various
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