PHOTICS

Noun

photics (uncountable)

The science of light.

Usage notes

• A general term sometimes employed when optics is restricted to light as producing vision.

Source: Wiktionary


Pho"tics, n. (Physics)

Definition: The science of light; -- a general term sometimes employed when optics is restricted to light as a producing vision. Knight.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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