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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Photics

/(fō"tĭks)/ · Pho·tics · IPA
01 n. The science of light; -- a general term sometimes employed when optics is restricted to light as a producing vision.
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    The science of light; -- a general term sometimes employed when optics is restricted to light as a producing vision.(Physics)