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prism: a transparent body that is bounded in part by two non-parallel plane faces and is used to deviate or disperse a beam of light
Category: Physics

prism: a transparent optical element,usually of glass or plastic,bounded by at least two planes secting at a refracting edge.The angle formed at the refracting edge,and in a plane normal to it,constitutes the prism angle.Incident light rays on a prism are deviated into new directions as the result of refraction or total internal reflection or both
Category: Physics

PRISM: prism housed on the top of the camera by which a normal image is obtained in the viewfinder.
Category: General

prismatic: a male prismatic way the cross section of which is an upright triangle
Category: Mechanical engineering

prismatic: a straight guide way the guiding surfaces of which have a cross section limited by straight lines,e.g.either of the two slide ways of a lathe
Category: Mechanical engineering

prismatic: a set of straight guide ways the guiding surfaces of which have a cross section limited by straight lines,e.g.the slide ways of a lathe
Category: Mechanical engineering

prismatic: a lenslike unit or assembly of transparent optical glass,molded or otherwise preformed so that different areas of the transmitting surface each have a prescribed prismatic effect to deflect light in a desired direction,thus to accomplish a distribution or a concentration of light suitable for special illumination purposes
Category: Medicine

prismatic: structure type,characterized by vertical prismatic rock components which are more or less sharp-edged
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

prismatic: an instrument designed for the accurate determination of positions ashore by means of a series of observations of heavenly bodies at a certain fixed altitude above the horizon,rising or setting 99999 INTERNATIONAL DE MONACO,1951
Category: The cosmos

prismatic: the prismatic fuel element consists of a machined hexagonal graphite block about 750 mm long and 350 mm across the flats. Fuel and coolant channels are drilled in a hexagonal array. Fuel rods, which consist of coated particles bonded in a random close-packed array by a carbonaceous matrix, are contained in the fuel channels
Category: Nuclear industry (with applied atomic and nuclear physics)

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