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adjective

Prismatical, Prismatic adj.

Resembling, or pertaining to, a prism; as, a prismatic form or cleavage.

Separated or distributed by a prism; formed by a prism; as, prismatic colors.

(Crystallog.) Same as Orthorhombic.

Prismatic borax (Chem.), borax crystallized in the form of oblique prisms, with ten molecules of water; distinguished from octahedral borax.

Prismatic colors (Opt.), the seven colors into which light is resolved when passed through a prism; primary colors. See Primary colors, under Color.

Prismatic compass (Surv.), a compass having a prism for viewing a distant object and the compass card at the same time.

Prismatic spectrum (Opt.), the spectrum produced by the passage of light through a prism.

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Etymology of 'Prismatic'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Prismatic" Quotes from Famous Books

... ever occur to you how many subjects for the highest order of poetry lie unnoticed all about us? Take that chandelier, for example, the prismatic drops of which are dull in the shade, but sparkle with all the colors of the rainbow in the gaslight. Might not those hidden splendors be compared to that genius whose brilliancy is alone evoked by Beauty's ...

— Round the Block • John Bell Bouton

... pounder or two may be in the dish. But three to the pound is decidedly nearer the average, at least in April. The flies commonly used are larger than what are employed in Loch Leven. A teal wing and red body, a grouse hackle, and the prismatic Heckham Peckham are among the favourites; but it is said that flies no bigger than Tweed flies are occasionally successful. In my own brief experience I have found the trout "dour," occasionally they would rise freely for ...

— Angling Sketches • Andrew Lang

... consequently the light should be intercepted by the smallest quantity of glass. Dollond's achromatics contain, however, six lenses, and possess no recommendation but their enlarged field, and their freedom from prismatic colours in that field; points of no consequence in looking through a fixed glass at a fixed and circumscribed object. The field of the Galilean telescope is quite large enough, and, having but two lenses, one of which ...

— A Morning's Walk from London to Kew • Richard Phillips

... room itself was deliciously familiar to him; crimson-curtained, green carpeted, shining with heavy gilt picture frames and prismatic chandeliers. Often with posies and candies and theater-tickets he had strutted across that erstwhile magic threshold and fairly lolled in the big deep-upholstered chairs while waiting for the silk-rustling ...

— Molly Make-Believe • Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

... a trifle up and now perceived that through the vapors a dim yet steady glow was beginning to shine, and on each side of it there stretched a line of other, smaller, blue-green lights. These, haloed by the vapor with the most beautiful prismatic rings, extended in an irregular row ...

— Darkness and Dawn • George Allan England

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