optical instrument

Noun

Meaning

an instrument designed to aid vision

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

periscope microscope dioptra

Hypernyms

instrument

Hyponyms

periscope projector spectroscope glasses spectacles binoculars

Examples

Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself. Marcel Proust

Close letter words and terms

optical illusion optical imperfection optical insert optical isomer optical isomerism optical lattice clock