PRISM
\pɹˈɪzəm], \pɹˈɪzəm], \p_ɹ_ˈɪ_z_ə_m]\
Definitions of PRISM
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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optical device having a triangular shape and made of glass or quartz; used to deviate a beam or invert an image
By Princeton University
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optical device having a triangular shape and made of glass or quartz; used to deviate a beam or invert an image
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A solid whose bases or ends are any similar, equal, and parallel plane figures, and whose sides are parallelograms.
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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.
By Oddity Software
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A solid whose hases are similar, equal, and parallel, and whose sides are parallelograms; such a solid, having triangular ends and made of glass or other transparent substance: used for separating the colors in the light ray.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William R. Warner
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(geom.) A solid whose ends are similar, equal, and parallel planes, and whose sides are parallelograms: (optics) a solid glass, triangular shaped body.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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A solid whose bases are similar equal and parallel plane figures, and whose faces are parallelograms; spectrum.
By James Champlin Fernald
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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A solid the sides of which are parallelograms and its cross section a figure of three or more sides.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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n. [Latin, Greek] A solid whose bases or ends are any similar, equal, and parallel plane figures, and whose sides are parallelograms; -a transparent body with, usually, three rectangular plane faces or sides, and two equal and parallel triangular ends or bases.
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