optical phenomenon

1. 1.

   a physical phenomenon related to or involving light

   Broaderphysical phenomenon

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Questions about optical phenomenon

What does optical phenomenon mean?

optical phenomenon means "a physical phenomenon related to or involving light".

Is optical phenomenon a common word?

optical phenomenon 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.