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prism - 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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optical device a device for producing or controlling light
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biprism an optical device for obtaining interference fringes
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scope,
telescope an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control: "the range of a supersonic jet"; "a piano has a greater range than the human voice"; "the ambit of municipal legislation"; "within the compass of this article"; "within the scope of an investigation"; "outside the reach of the law"; "in the political orbit of a world power"
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prism spectroscope,
spectroscope an optical instrument for spectrographic analysis
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erecting prism a right-angled optical prism used to turn an inverted image upright
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prism - a polyhedron with two congruent and parallel faces (the bases) and whose lateral faces are parallelograms |
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polyhedron a solid figure bounded by plane polygons or faces
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parallelepiped,
parallelepipedon,
parallelopiped,
parallelopipedon a prism whose bases are parallelograms
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quadrangular prism a prism whose bases are quadrangles
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triangular prism a prism whose bases are triangles
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