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Prism   /prˈɪzəm/   Listen
Prism

noun
1.
A polyhedron with two congruent and parallel faces (the bases) and whose lateral faces are parallelograms.
2.
Optical device having a triangular shape and made of glass or quartz; used to deviate a beam or invert an image.  Synonym: optical prism.



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"Prism" Quotes from Famous Books



... as we have yielded to the infernal temptation, the lying prism vanishes, the halo disappears, and there only remains vice in all its hideousness and repulsive nudity. It is then that we hear a threatening voice mutter secretly in the ...
— The Grip of Desire • Hector France
... at least a mathematical relationship, or perhaps I ought rather to have said a metaphysical relationship between them. Sir Isaac Newton has observed, that the breadths of the seven primary colours in the Sun's image refracted by a prism are proportional to the seven musical notes of the gamut, or to the intervals of the eight sounds contained in an octave, that is, proportional to ...
— The Botanic Garden. Part II. - Containing The Loves of the Plants. A Poem. - With Philosophical Notes. • Erasmus Darwin
... look at woman through the prism of desire, and she looks at us in the same way; her beauty appears to us the more perfect the more it arouses our sexual desires—that is, the more voluptuous enjoyment the possession ...
— Primitive Love and Love-Stories • Henry Theophilus Finck
... never care for it very long. The antelope does not have a chance against gas and steel and a long-range rifle. On horseback the conditions are reversed. An antelope can run twice as fast as the best horse living. It can see as far as a man with prism binoculars. All the odds are in the animal's favor except two—its fatal desire to run in a circle about the pursuer, and the use of a high-power rifle. But even then an antelope three hundred yards away, going at a speed of fifty miles an hour, ...
— Across Mongolian Plains - A Naturalist's Account of China's 'Great Northwest' • Roy Chapman Andrews
... with a glass prism for reading by reflection, that the eye can simultaneously observe an object and ...
— The Sailor's Word-Book • William Henry Smyth


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