optical device

1. 1.

   a device for producing or controlling light

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Questions about optical device

What does optical device mean?

optical device means "a device for producing or controlling light".

Is optical device a common word?

optical device 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.