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<optics> Of or pertaining to an optical arrangement for forming images in a darkened room, usually called scioptic ball.
<optics> Scioptic ball, the lens of a camera obscura mounted in a wooden ball which fits a socket in a window shutter so as to be readily turned, like the eye, to different parts of the landscape.
Origin: Gr. Shadow + belonging to sight: cf. F. Scioptique. See Optic.
(01 Mar 1998)
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