Prism

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A solid figure whose bases or ends have the same size and shape and are parallel to one another, and each of whose sides is a parallelogram.
  • n. A transparent body of this form, often of glass and usually with triangular ends, used for separating white light passed through it into a spectrum or for reflecting beams of light.
  • n. A cut-glass object, such as a pendant of a chandelier.
  • n. A crystal form consisting of three or more similar faces parallel to a single axis.
  • n. A medium that misrepresents whatever is seen through it.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A polyhedron with parallel ends of the same size and shape, the other faces being parallelogram-shaped sides.
  • n. A transparent block in the shape of a prism (typically with triangular ends), used to split or reflect light.
  • n. A crystal in which the faces are parallel to the vertical axis.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A solid whose bases or ends are any similar, equal, and parallel plane figures, and whose sides are parallelograms.
  • n. A transparent body, with usually three rectangular plane faces or sides, and two equal and parallel triangular ends or bases; -- used in experiments on refraction, dispersion, etc.
  • n. A form the planes of which are parallel to the vertical axis. See Form, n., 13.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In geometry, a solid whose bases or ends are any similar, equal, and parallel plane polygons, and whose sides are parallelograms.
  • n. Specifically An optical instrument consisting of a transparent, medium so arranged that the surfaces which receive and transmit light form an angle with each other: usually of a triangular form with well-polished sides, which meet in three parallel lines, and made of glass, rock-salt, or quartz, or a liquid, as carbon disulphid, contained in a prismatic receptacle formed of plates of glass.
  • n. In crystallography, a form consisting of planes, usually four, six, eight, or twelve, which are parallel to the vertical axis.
  • n. In canals, a part of the water-space in a straight section of a canal, considered as a parallelepiped.
  • n. In weaving, same as pattern-box
  • n. A form of illuminator consisting of a prism with two convex surfaces, by which the light is brought to a focus upon the object.
  • n. According to some authors any form having two pairs of parallel faces is called a prism; in this sense the term includes the domes of the orthorhombic system (this name being then restricted to a form having two faces only intersecting in an edge) and the hemipyramids of the monoclinic system.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a polyhedron with two congruent and parallel faces (the bases) and whose lateral faces are parallelograms
  • n. optical device having a triangular shape and made of glass or quartz; used to deviate a beam or invert an image
    • Equivalent
    Nicol prism   
    Cross Reference
    sun-prism    bisulphid prism    nicol prism    rochon's prism    diatom prism   
    Variant
    form   
    Form
    prismatic    antiprism    prismatically    Nicol prism   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Chisholm    ism    schism    scism   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    pyramid    cross section    triangle    cupola    shard   
     
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