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Entry 2 senses Webster, 1913

Optically

· Op·tic·al·ly · IPA /ˈɑptɪkliː/
01 adv. By optics or sight.
  1. 1.
    By optics or sight.
  2. 2.
    With reference to optics.
Phrases & compounds
Optically active — terms used of certain isomeric substances which, while identical with each other in other respects, differ in this, viz., that they do or do not produce right-handed or left-handed circular polarization of light. See optical activity.
Optically positive — See under Refraction.