optical bench

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   apparatus for observation and measurement of optical phenomena

   Broaderapparatus

Questions about optical bench

What does optical bench mean?

optical bench means "apparatus for observation and measurement of optical phenomena".

Is optical bench a common word?

optical bench is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.