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prism
[ priz-uhm ]
noun
- Optics. a transparent solid body, often having triangular bases, used for dispersing light into a spectrum or for reflecting rays of light.
- Geometry. a solid having bases or ends that are parallel, congruent polygons and sides that are parallelograms.
- Crystallography. a form having faces parallel to the vertical axis and intersecting the horizontal axes.
prism
/ ˈprɪzəm /
noun
- a transparent polygonal solid, often having triangular ends and rectangular sides, for dispersing light into a spectrum or for reflecting and deviating light. They are used in spectroscopes, binoculars, periscopes, etc
- a form of crystal with faces parallel to the vertical axis
- maths a polyhedron having parallel, polygonal, and congruent bases and sides that are parallelograms
prism
/ prĭz′əm /
- A geometric solid whose bases are congruent polygons lying in parallel planes and whose sides are parallelograms.
- A solid of this type, often made of glass with triangular ends, used to disperse light and break it up into a spectrum.
- A crystal form having 3, 4, 6, 8, or 12 faces parallel to the vertical axis and intersecting the horizontal axis.
prism
- A solid figure in geometry with bases or ends of the same size and shape and sides that have parallel edges. Also, an object that has this shape.
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Example Sentences
I recognize my inability to truly understand these events in the same context or view these events through exactly the same prism.
You had the PRISM program, and you also have National Security letters.
He pops from the screen as a charismatic, occasionally messianic “human prism,” as Moss calls him.
Snowden himself exposed a program known as PRISM that provided these so-called back doors to the NSA in the United States.
Mistakes happen, nuance is often lost, and everything is seen through a prism of who is winning and who is losing.
At eighteen does not love hold a prism between the world and the eyes of a young girl?
His name and his bright past, seen through the prism of whispered gossip, had gained him the nickname of The Admiral.
It was an irregular trapezium, a mass struck off from the colossal granitic prism of the Great Douvre.
A theme taken from a medival author; an antique figure, that of Virgil, but seen through the prism of modern poetry.
Analysis by the prism alone has quite doubled the knowledge that was previously available.
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