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nounoptical device having a triangular shape and made of glass or quartz; used to deviate a beam or invert an image
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- prismatic exhibiting spectral colors formed by refraction of light through a prism
- prismatic of or relating to or resembling or constituting a prism
- triangular prism a prism whose bases are triangles
- prismoid a prismatoid whose bases are polygons having the same number of sides and whose other faces are trapezoids or parallelograms
- parallelopiped a prism whose bases are parallelograms
- prismatoid a polyhedron whose vertices all lie in one or the other of two parallel planes; the faces that lie in those planes are the bases of the prismatoid
- visible spectrum the distribution of colors produced when light is dispersed by a prism
- color spectrum the distribution of colors produced when light is dispersed by a prism
- parallelopipedon a prism whose bases are parallelograms
- erecting prism a right-angled optical prism used to turn an inverted image upright