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Definitions of prism
  1. noun
    optical device having a triangular shape and made of glass or quartz; used to deviate a beam or invert an image

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  2. noun
    a polyhedron with two congruent and parallel faces (the bases) and whose lateral faces are parallelograms
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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
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