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  • Already the work area was a mess of tangled wires and pulsating fibre optics.†   (source)
  • Everything was still bathed and saturated with her presence— higher, wider, deeper than life, a shift in optics that had produced a rainbow edge, and I remember thinking that this must be how people felt after visions of saints—not that my mother was a saint, only that her appearance had been as distinct and startling as a flame leaping up in a dark room.†   (source)
  • Probably just the mansion's magic barriers causing optical illusions, but still, it was weird.†   (source)
  • Gyroscopic crystals in the binoculars hummed slightly as they stabilized the optics and swept the area in a programmed search pattern.†   (source)
  • D. in Boston, researching in the field of fiber optics.†   (source)
  • Many— though not all—Radchaai had optical and auditory implants that allowed them to view entertainments or listen to music or messages directly.†   (source)
  • "Persuaders" called to her from raised platforms, seeking to entice her into the Moorish Palace with its room of mirrors, its optical illusions, and its eclectic wax museum, where visitors saw figures as diverse as Little Red Riding Hood and Marie Antoinette about to be guillotined.†   (source)
  • Prisoner 66730 was instructed to report for an optical fitting at 6:30 the following morning.†   (source)
  • Over each of our CAR-I 5s, we had mounted Advanced Combat Optical Gunsights (ACOGs), a 1.5-power close-range point-and-shoot scope made by Trijicon.†   (source)
  • In other words, it presents an optical illusion.†   (source)
  • He fiddled with optical illusions, and took to wearing his shoes too small and his clothes too big.†   (source)
  • It was a small collection of electronic and optical systems that enabled the Hog to see at night while flying at minimum altitude searching for targets.†   (source)
  • The top surface of the computer is smooth except for a fisheye lens, a polished glass dome with a purplish optical coating.†   (source)
  • She had lost weight and at first I thought she might have grown, because she looked taller, but then I realized it was just an optical illusion, the effect of my own shrinking.†   (source)
  • At first Vic thought he hadn't seen right; it was some sort of optical illusion.†   (source)
  • The train situation is not the same as an optical illusion.†   (source)
  • Wide angle fibre optics.†   (source)
  • Blue Team knocked out his microwave towers and cut his fiber-optics lines on the assumption that Red Team would now have to use satellite communications and cell phones and they could monitor his communications.†   (source)
  • Then he took a small case with optical instruments out of the toolbox that he always carried with him.†   (source)
  • But the set of the vision had been subtly different, like an optical image that had disappeared into his consciousness, been absorbed by memory, and now failed of perfect registry when projected onto the real scene.†   (source)
  • The conversation moved from optics to the rarefied light of the Hudson River Valley, where Howard lived, and southern France, where he liked to visit.†   (source)
  • Along Elm all the stores were dark, the two banks were dimly lit, the neon spectacles in the window of the optical shop cast a gimmicky light on the sidewalk.†   (source)
  • It was no optical illusion.†   (source)
  • When a french fry with a blemish was detected, an optical sorting machine time-sequenced a single burst of compressed air that knocked the bad fry off the production line and onto a separate conveyer belt, which carried it to a machine with tiny automated knives that precisely removed the blemish.†   (source)
  • He knew, for example, that it was called paramnesia, and he was interested as well in such corollary optical phenomena as jamais vu, never seen, and presque vu, almost seen.†   (source)
  • The man was giggling about an optics experiment he'd conducted as a teenager.†   (source)
  • On this Labor Day, John Kennedy sees a small boat bobbing in the distance as he removes his American Optical Saratoga sunglasses and eases himself into a wicker chair on the grass of Brambletyde's beachfront yard.†   (source)
  • This is nothing more than optical trickery at work.†   (source)
  • It was the ultimate fantasy, its optical illusions seemingly more real than reality, the phantasmagoria there to be touched, felt, used, entered into and departed from; it was a collective masterpiece of invention cut out of the immense forests along the Volkhov River.†   (source)
  • Surveying instruments and helmet binoculars were all we turned up, plus optical instruments confiscated in Terran labs.†   (source)
  • My primary weapon that I used daily was a suppressed Heckler & Koch (H&K) 416 with the ten-inch barrel and an EOTech optical red dot sight with a 3X magnifier.†   (source)
  • Even if we see some sort of optical device or wood frame, we assume that they're pre-sighting the gun ports so that they can move the cannon up at night, and we respond with the same great diligence.†   (source)
  • "I was here all those years," he said, "within your reach, inside your own realm, watching your struggle, your loneliness, your longing, watching you in a battle you thought you were fighting for me, a battle in which you were supporting my enemies and taking an endless defeat —I was here, hidden by nothing but an error of your sight, as Atlantis is hidden from men by nothing but an optical illusion-I was here, waiting for the day when you would see, when you would know that by the code of the world you were supporting, it's to the darkest bottom of the underground that all the things you valued would have to be consigned and that it's there that you would have to look.†   (source)
  • He kept the cowl of his brown cloak pulled low over the flowing waves of his stark white hair and moved with such effortless grace that an onlooker might have thought him to be no more than an illusion, an optical trick of the brown sea of tundra.†   (source)
  • She's like an optical illusion.†   (source)
  • He pulled a pair of night optics from his knapsack, slipped them on his head, flipped down the eyepiece, and fired them up.†   (source)
  • Some kind of optical instrument formed part of the end of this metal arm.†   (source)
  • After Duck Commander signed a licensing deal with Weaver, which makes rifle and shotgun optical scopes, I wanted to tour their manufacturing center in Taiwan.†   (source)
  • It's only an optical what-do-you-call-it.†   (source)
  • The head of the Aten Mining Project, he had degrees in optics, astronomy and geology.†   (source)
  • Mordecai switched the camera from optical to infrared, and a moment later Gabriel and Eli Lavon watched as a yellow-and-red man-shaped blob slipped quickly in and out of the gorse at the edge of the Kerselaarstraat.†   (source)
  • My husband and I work for an optical firm.†   (source)
  • Thelma was an optical illusion, a woman's head on top of a stepladder; and she had been golden-haired and young, and had smiled invitingly.†   (source)
  • A red-headed researcher, actually working on a problem of a transistor which would record the TP impulse, hastily invented the fact that TP optical transmission was astigmatic and humbly requested enlightenment.†   (source)
  • When we re-entered the streets something happened to me which had the force of an optical illusion, or a nightmare.†   (source)
  • She would have to look a good deal closer than she already had to see evidence of what I was—to a casual observer I looked as though I had one or two communications and optical implants, the sort of thing millions of people got as a matter of course, Radchaai or not.†   (source)
  • She focused on me as if I were a clever optical illusion.†   (source)
  • It appears straight, but that is an optical illusion.†   (source)
  • Ashima had never heard of Boston, or of fiber optics.†   (source)
  • It holds an exclusive collection of lenses—or optical glass.†   (source)
  • Some kind of optical illusion or hologram, hiding a doorway.†   (source)
  • An optical illusion does contain two realities.†   (source)
  • But this is just some kind of optical illusion.†   (source)
  • With the optical lens, of course, that was new; the rest is ancient.†   (source)
  • I flipped on my night optical device (NOD).†   (source)
  • The hairpin crown was an optical illusion: it's just hair, graying and cropped short.†   (source)
  • They almost seem to move, to shimmer; swimming in and out of my vision like an optical illusion.†   (source)
  • ERS didn't have one wall replaced with optical sapphire.†   (source)
  • He powered up his optics and the world was revealed in a sharply defined green.†   (source)
  • I cleared and safed my weapon, switched off the optics, and packed it in its case.†   (source)
  • Puller drew closer to the body and used his optics to read the nameplate.†   (source)
  • Don't have a degree in optics, but anybody knows that.†   (source)
  • He swept the area in front of him with his night-vision optics.†   (source)
  • He looked through it, adjusting the optics until he had a clear look at the front porch.†   (source)
  • Are all flying saucers optical illusions?†   (source)
  • Many of the lab's research books contained passages in ancient languages, and so Trish was often asked to write specialized Optical Character Recognition translation modules to generate English text from obscure languages.†   (source)
  • Over the past two decades, King's College Research Institute in Systematic Theology had used optical character recognition software in unison with linguistic translation devices to digitize and catalog an enormous collection of texts—encyclopedias of religion, religious biographies, sacred scriptures in dozens of languages, histories, Vatican letters, diaries of clerics, anything at all that qualified as writings on human spirituality.†   (source)
  • He used the optical finder instead of the LCD because he was afraid to see the results, though he was going to have to face them soon enough.†   (source)
  • The endless rows of shelves looked like some kind of "infinity" optical illusion created with mirrors.†   (source)
  • The polished marble floor was done in a white-andgray diamond pattern, which made walking on it kind of like walking on an optical illusion.†   (source)
  • She had landed a decent job in the packing and billing department of Castle Rock's one real industry, Trace Optical.†   (source)
  • It has been caught through some kind of light-amplifying optics that wash out the color and make everything incredibly grainy and low contrast.†   (source)
  • But you apparently haven't discovered the special optical interaction between the sun's gaseous outer layer and our planet's atmosphere.†   (source)
  • Langdon and Katherine followed in silence through the darkness of the four-hundred-foot-long nave's central aisle, which was curved ever so slightly to the left to create a softening optical illusion.†   (source)
  • Optics came in handy during the stalk.†   (source)
  • Solomon had shown him long ago that from the proper vantage point, the library's reading desk and golden table lamp created an unmistakable optical illusion ....that of a pyramid and shining golden capstone.†   (source)
  • Given that premise, whether it's hard drives, optical disks, or integrated circuit storage, we could recover the vast majority of the data.†   (source)
  • Below this, on either side, where you'd sort of expect to see arms, huge bundles of wires, fiber optics, and tubes run up out of the floor and are seemingly plugged into Ng's shoulder sockets.†   (source)
  • The bright and sterile work space glistened with advanced quantitative equipment: paired electro encephalographs, a femtosecond comb, a magneto-optical trap, and quantum-indeterminate electronic noise REGs, more simply known as Random Event Generators.†   (source)
  • A triumphal cover on The Economist after the Nipponese finally knuckled under and let him corner the fiber-optics market in that country and, by extension, most of East Asia.†   (source)
  • Then, putting her eyes to the eyepiece of the optical positioning system, she watched the sun rise above the horizon, activated the positioning system for the antenna, and slowly aligned it with the sun.†   (source)
  • Just as a wild guess, Hiro figures that this may represent Rife's fiber-optics network, with its innumerable local offices and nodes spread all over the world.†   (source)
  • ing from a hatch on the rear, spiraling across the cargo pallet and the floor, and plugged into a crudely installed fiber-optics socket above the head of the sleeping Vitaly Chernobyl.†   (source)
  • In the end, the group chose a fiber optics system in which a light image was transmitted directly through a snakelike bundle of glass fibers and then displayed on the viewers.†   (source)
  • He brought in an optical printer.†   (source)
  • Perhaps what we thought we saw was just an optical illusion, a mere reflection of a momentary fluctuation in the light streaming through the window.†   (source)
  • It's as if you were looking into a firebox through the peephole or peering into one of those Easter eggs with scenes painted within, or watching a brightly illuminated and distant part of a city through a telescope with sparkling optics.†   (source)
  • The opening is very clever—it can't be detected by magic since it's just an optical illusion that camouflages a narrow exit.†   (source)
  • It's the optical illusion again.†   (source)
  • Arrayed upon it were the telephone and a row of four cells to power it; the telescope, with its chain rising to the plate in the ceiling; a pelorus, for establishing bearings; an optical range-finder; a daily log; a codebook; a box of pencils and a penknife for whitding them sharp; a pair of binoculars-even the king did not have better binoculars; and a kerosene lamp with a brightly polished reflector.†   (source)
  • Large viewing deck of optical sapphire.†   (source)
  • With almost the entire starboard wall of the Starfire being optical sapphire, the view was more than startling.†   (source)
  • He eyed the man through his optics.†   (source)
  • It was optically extremely pure.†   (source)
  • He flipped up his night optics.†   (source)
  • Night optics.†   (source)
  • He touched his optics.†   (source)
  • But once you've gone this far, I must point out, with primary, secondary, auditory, olfactory, and labial hallucinations, as well as tactile and optical fantasies, it is pretty bad business.†   (source)
  • It even got so that almost at will I could produce an optical illusion.†   (source)
  • There's an optical company upstairs and the boss is a Yankee from Illinois.†   (source)
  • A white boy there didn't want me to learn the optical trade and ran me off the job.†   (source)
  • But you won't get a chance to learn the optical trade here.†   (source)
  • One day I went to the optical counter of a department store to deliver a pair of eyeglasses.†   (source)
  • The next morning I was outside the office of the optical company long before it opened.†   (source)
  • Had I not felt it when I walked home from the optical company that morning with my job gone?†   (source)
  • I worked for an optical company for a short while in Jackson.†   (source)
  • He's at work, at the M— Optical Company," I said.†   (source)
  • Thus it might be that the people of the Gulf trust things of the spirit and things of the imagination, but they do not trust their eyes to show them distance or clear outline or any optical exactness.†   (source)
  • Of all literature up to our days the drama has been the most highly prized by writers and critics, and rightly, since it offers (or might offer) the greatest possibilities of representing the ego as a manifold entity, but for the optical illusion which makes us believe that the characters of the play are one-fold entities by lodging each one in an undeniable body, singly, separately and once and for all.†   (source)
  • Then we were nearly caught by the clerk in the making out of the budget and were terrified, but we were favored by the crowd that day and got the slip to the optical department.†   (source)
  • If I had attempted to work for an optical company in Jackson and had failed, why should I not try to work for an optical company in Memphis?†   (source)
  • The next morning at ten I crept up the stairs and peered into the office of the optical shop to make sure that Mr. Crane was in.†   (source)
  • And now I was facing fear again, though I had no notion that I was slowly adding fagots to a flame that would soon blaze over my head with all the violence of the assault I had sustained when I had naively thought I could learn the optical trade in Mississippi.†   (source)
  • What do you know of the science of optics?†   (source)
  • Once there appeared a strange optical effect.†   (source)
  • The ceremony took place in the social room with the optical toys.†   (source)
  • Cosette was by his side, she seemed to be his; an optical illusion which every one has experienced.†   (source)
  • He believed in the straight line; a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man.†   (source)
  • Optical density!†   (source)
  • As for Hans Castorp's case, the optical and acoustical results corresponded as precisely as one could ever demand of science.†   (source)
  • At the same time he could not help wondering even at this moment of what Roberta would think, if now, by some extra optical power of observation she could note his present joy in connection with this note.†   (source)
  • At the time I will confess that I thought chiefly of the Philosophical Transactions and my own seventeen papers upon physical optics.†   (source)
  • I made him touch the mirrors and the iron tree and the branches and explained to him, by optical laws, all the luminous imagery by which we were surrounded and of which we need not allow ourselves to be the victims, like ordinary, ignorant people.†   (source)
  • All at once, on the blank page, under the very point of the pen, the two figures of Chester and his antique partner, very distinct and complete, would dodge into view with stride and gestures, as if reproduced in the field of some optical toy.†   (source)
  • I know of governors of places, and seneschals of castles, and sheriffs of counties, and many like small offices and titles of honor, but him you call the Science of Optics I have not heard of before; peradventure it is a new dignity.†   (source)
  • But Omniums had no optical department.†   (source)
  • It was fun—he stood there for a long time, just trying out this little optical phenomenon over and over.†   (source)
  • And so the day proceeded until the substantial supper, which was followed by a gathering in the social rooms, with optical gadgets for everyone's amusement.†   (source)
  • Which was exactly how good Joachim now looked to Hans Castorp, although with the aid and under the auspices of physical optics—so that it did not really mean anything and was perfectly normal, particularly since he had expressly obtained Joachim's permission.†   (source)
  • The convivial mood continued, more music followed, but nothing that demanded their particular attention; people gathered with their drinks for dominoes and bridge, amused themselves with the optical gadgets, and stood chatting in little groups here and there.†   (source)
  • And he recalled the calm, generous reply of "Oh, please, go ahead and look," that he had once received out of the dark night of the X-ray laboratory, when he had thought it necessary to ask permission to commit certain optical indiscretions.†   (source)
  • First, it was not an optical contrivance that the guests found one evening in the music room—some of them greeting it by clasping their hands over their heads, others by folding them reverently with heads bowed—it was an acoustic instrument; and second, there was no comparison to those little mechanisms in value, status, and rank.†   (source)
  • In the first social room there were also a few optical gadgets for their amusement: the first, a stereoscopic viewer, through the lenses of which you stared at photographs you inserted into it—a Venetian gondolier for example, in all his bloodless and rigid substantiality; the second, a long, tubelike kaleidoscope that you put up to one eye, and by turning a little ring with one hand, you coul†   (source)
  • But it seemed that, when on the wharf, Queequeg had not at all noticed what I now alluded to; hence I would have thought myself to have been optically deceived in that matter, were it not for Elijah's otherwise inexplicable question.†   (source)
  • But he looked again, and the face and person seemed gradually to grow less strange; to change as he looked, to subside and soften into lineaments that were familiar, until at last they resolved themselves, as if by some strange optical illusion, into those of one whom he had known for many years, and forgotten and lost sight of for nearly as many more.†   (source)
  • Hence a thousand optical illusions, a thousand aberrations of judgment, a thousand deviations, in which his thought strayed, now mad, now idiotic.†   (source)
  • Twenty times a day some error in perception, or the optical illusions of some sailor perched in the crosstrees, would cause intolerable anguish, and this emotion, repeated twenty times over, kept us in a state of irritability so intense that a reaction was bound to follow.†   (source)
  • Several times the sisters fancied they saw it, looming up in the obscurity, like a low black rock; but on each occasion it was found to be either an optical illusion, or some swell of the foliage on the shore.†   (source)
  • Yet those same bleared optics had a strange, penetrating power, when it was their owner's purpose to read the human soul.†   (source)
  • Because the convent, which is common to the Orient as well as to the Occident, to antiquity as well as to modern times, to paganism, to Buddhism, to Mahometanism, as well as to Christianity, is one of the optical apparatuses applied by man to the Infinite.†   (source)
  • Perhaps the rapidity of the changes from one of these paces to the other created an optical illusion, which might thus magnify the powers of the beast; for it is certain that Heyward, who possessed a true eye for the merits of a horse, was unable, with his utmost ingenuity, to decide by what sort of movement his pursuer worked his sinuous way on his footsteps with such persevering hardihood.†   (source)
  • She screwed her dim optics to their acutest point, in the hope of making out, with greater distinctness, a certain window, where she half saw, half guessed, that a tailor's seamstress was sitting at her work.†   (source)
  • It is demonstrable that the scratches are going everywhere impartially and it is only your candle which produces the flattering illusion of a concentric arrangement, its light falling with an exclusive optical selection.†   (source)
  • Over my head ragged clouds were drifting past, and by an optical inversion they seemed stationary, while the steeple, the ball and I were all spinning along with fantastic speed.†   (source)
  • Though she had some indistinct idea of the method of these optical phenomena, still the illusion was almost perfect enough to warrant the belief that her husband possessed sway over the spiritual world.†   (source)
  • Now came a pause of ten minutes, during which I, by this time in perfect possession of my wits, observed all the female Brocklehursts produce their pocket-handkerchiefs and apply them to their optics, while the elderly lady swayed herself to and fro, and the two younger ones whispered, "How shocking!"†   (source)
  • And, by virtue of an optical illusion peculiar to judicial proceedings, these same spectators who had, probably, more than once applauded in the public square Djali's innocent magic were terrified by it beneath the roof of the Palais de Justice.†   (source)
  • Its snowy summit, by an optical illusion not unfrequent in mountains, seemed close to us, and yet how many weary hours it took to reach it!†   (source)
  • By an optical law which obtains at all great heights, the shores seemed raised and the centre depressed.†   (source)
  • Nature has endowed it with an optical apparatus of extreme power, and capable of resisting the pressure of the great volume of water in the depths it inhabits.†   (source)
  • Thus,—and in the exaggeration of anguish, and the optical illusion of consternation, all that might have corrected and restrained this impression was effaced, and society, and the human race, and the universe were, henceforth, summed up in his eyes, in one simple and terrible feature,—thus the penal laws, the thing judged, the force due to legislation, the decrees of the sovereign courts, the magistracy†   (source)
  • The optical reflection of several inverted volumes improperly arranged and not in the order of their common letters with scintillating titles on the two bookshelves opposite.†   (source)
  • An optical illusion.†   (source)
  • They would sometimes alight upon my victuals, and leave their loathsome excrement, or spawn behind, which to me was very visible, though not to the natives of that country, whose large optics were not so acute as mine, in viewing smaller objects.†   (source)
  • DNA was such a large molecule that each species required ten gigabytes of optical disk space to store details of all the iterations.   (source)
    optical = relating to light (in this case, using a laser to read and write data)
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  • Even using the Plug's high bandwidth fiber-optic connection, the total estimated upload time for ten zettabytes of data was over three hours.†   (source)
  • The fiber-optic line from Verizon, that the building had its TV and internet plugged into, should have worked even in a blackout—assuming you could power up your own TV and cable box.†   (source)
  • Some small part of him wondered if his optic nerves were being manipulated by WICKED somehow, if it was all yet another simulation.†   (source)
  • Routine contentment was: improving our treehouse that rested between giant twin chinaberry trees in the back yard, fussing, running through our list of dramas based on the works of Oliver Optic, Victor Appleton, and Edgar Rice Burroughs.†   (source)
  • But she knew that even if the knives were not poised above her optic nerve, she would attend to her nephews only out of duty.†   (source)
  • Their images burn the retina after a while and I look down at the river only to see the same optic echo there in the dark waters.†   (source)
  • It was an eight-man team sent to operate in enemy territory to report enemy positions and destroy targets such as fiber-optic communication lines.†   (source)
  • They walked away from the beach club and in the lee of a hill they saw what looked like a refugee camp, with hundreds of tents and lean-tos and people of many colors and hues— many colors and hues but mostly falling within a band of brown that ranged from dark chocolate to milky tea—and these people were gathered around fires that burned inside upright oil drums and speaking in a cacophony that was the languages of the world, what one might hear if one were a communications satellite, or a spymaster tapping into a fiber-optic cable under the sea.†   (source)
  • But as his brain swelled with internal bleeding, bone or bullet fragments that were in his eye severed his optic nerves.†   (source)
  • Well, hidden within that wig was a tiny fiber-optic camera ....concealed in the bangs.†   (source)
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  • The landline was fiber optic, located in a steel conduit under a paved street.†   (source)
  • That digital information was going straight into Da5id's optic nerve.†   (source)
  • Through the NODS (night optic device) it was a spectacular sight, a vision perhaps of heaven, set in a land of hellish undercurrents and flaming hatreds.†   (source)
  • She wanted to communicate in this secondary way, with optic fluids.†   (source)
  • The valve was masked by flesh-colored tape, as were the electrodes on her temples and chest and the hole they had cut above one of her young breasts to insert a fiber-optic tube into her heart.†   (source)
  • Her attachments wound tightly into place around the nerve centers, some elongating and reaching deeper to where he couldn't see, under and up into the brain, the optic nerves, the ear canals.†   (source)
  • High-dose ethambutol is associated with optic neuritis and loss of color vision in a small proportion of adults, but kids can't report loss of color vision, so it shouldn't be used.†   (source)
  • Our white, Optic White.†   (source)
  • He'd even painted the room, from its sky blue to a barren, optic white.†   (source)
  • Finding clear evidence that the right eye's optic nerve has somehow been cut, he decides to reexamine.†   (source)
  • Then she placed her hands, vertically, over her eyes and pressed the heels hard, as though to paralyze the optic nerve and drown all images into a voidlike black.†   (source)
  • Nearby, I visited a Japanese-owned fiber-optic-material manufacturer, and a company that makes specialized metal parts for intercontinental ballistic missiles.†   (source)
  • Nobody would believe that he found it necessary to absorb his sex at long range through optic nerves and binoculars.†   (source)
  • "Now my dear doctor, if you would try a transaction of the optic—" &c.†   (source)
  • Powers a fiber-optic pinpoint camera hidden in the hair.†   (source)
  • "So in other words, someone just exposed your optic nerve to what, maybe a hundred thousand bytes of information," Hiro says.†   (source)
  • The dingy backlit sign, which featured a smiling anthropomorphic fiber-optic cable, promised Lightning-Fast OASIS Access!†   (source)
  • Every secret of the body was rendered up—bone risen through flesh, sacrilegious glimpses of an intestine or an optic nerve.†   (source)
  • At worst, unrestrained, a matching set of sharpened kitchen knives would be drawn across her optic nerve, and then again, with a greater downward pressure, and she would be entirely shut in and alone.†   (source)
  • This is all a part of the moving illustration drawn by his computer according to specifications coming down the fiber-optic cable.†   (source)
  • I can provide each of you with a state-of-the-art immersion rig, a fiber-optic connection to the OASIS, and anything else you might need.†   (source)
  • Most important, it offered a direct fiber-optic connection to the main OASIS server vault, which was located just a few miles away.†   (source)
  • He also has a digital metavirus, in binary code, that can infect computers, or hackers, via the optic nerve.†   (source)
  • He is no longer connected to the network by a fiber-optic cable, and so all his communication with the outside world has to take place via radio waves, which are much slower and less reli able.†   (source)
  • The only reason they hadn't been able to locate me was because I'd taken the paranoiainduced precaution of leasing a direct fiber-optic connection to the OASIS from my apartment complex.†   (source)
  • The waxer is a very short Asian woman who does itso delicately that it doesn't even interfere with his talking, mostly about his efforts to extend his cable TV network throughout Korea and into China and link it up with his big fiber-optic trunk line that runs across Siberia and over the (Jrals.†   (source)
  • L. Bob Rife has taken a personal interest in the subject; as various national governments auction off their possessions, he has purchased a string of radio observatories and hooked them together, using his fabled fiber-optic net, to turn them into a single giant antenna as big as the whole earth.†   (source)
  • Where the driver's seat ought to be, there is a sort of neoprene pouch about the size of a garbage can suspended from the ceiling by a web of straps, shock cords, tubes, wires, fiber-optic cables, and hydraulic lines.†   (source)
  • optic cable.†   (source)
  • If It's Optic White, It's the Right White,' " he quoted with an upraised finger, like a preacher quoting holy writ.†   (source)
  • Struggling to remove an especially difficult cover, I wondered if the same Liberty paint was used on the campus, or if this "Optic White" was something made exclusively for the government.†   (source)
  • " 'If It's Optic White, It's the Right White,' " I repeated and suddenly had to repress a laugh as a childhood jingle rang through my mind: " 'If you're white, you're right,' " I said.†   (source)
  • The Japanese team, experts on the extra sensory Node, center of TP perceptivity, insisted that the Node was in curcuit with the Optic Nerve (it wasn't within two millimeters of same) and besieged Dr. Jordan with polite hissings and specious proofs.†   (source)
  • And yours truly will continuously wink one optic or the other.†   (source)
  • There's no taint of pain, real pain, in the sensations of the optic nerve.†   (source)
  • But what about the white and gray matter in the medulla, what about the optic thalamus and its connection to the eye, or the gray matter in the pons?†   (source)
  • If it were his eyeballs only that were affected, or if his optic nerve were not wholly destroyed, the explanation was simple.†   (source)
  • The light from it had beat upon his sealed lids, and the eyes and the optic nerves had pulsated to little, sparklike flashes, warm-coloured and strangely pleasing.†   (source)
  • Thus by association with the initial letters they mastered the twelve cranial nerves: olfactory, optic, oculomotor, trochlear, and the rest.†   (source)
  • If you wound the optic nerve, you merely see flashes of light,—just as disease of the auditory nerve merely means a humming in our ears.†   (source)
  • And it seemed to me that his eyes were strange, not only the expression, but the physical seeming, as though the optic nerves and supporting muscles had suffered strain and slightly twisted the eyeballs.†   (source)
  • Sooner have me as I am than some poet chap with bearsgrease plastery hair, lovelock over his dexter optic.†   (source)
  • The broad circumference
    Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb
    Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views
    At evening, from the top of Fesole,
    Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands,
    Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.†   (source)
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