Defenition of the word prism
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Defenition of the word prism
- Optical device having a triangular shape and made of glass or quartz.
- a polyhedron with two congruent and parallel faces (the bases) and whose lateral faces are parallelograms
- triangular shape and made of glass or quartz; used to deviate a beam or invert an image
- optical device having a triangular shape and made of glass or quartz; used to deviate a beam or invert an image
Synonyms for the word prism
Meronymys for the word prism
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- biprism
- prism spectroscope
- scope
- spectroscope
- telescope
Hyponyms for the word prism
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- erecting prism
- parallelepiped
- parallelepipedon
- parallelopiped
- parallelopipedon
- quadrangular prism
- triangular prism
Hypernyms for the word prism
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- optical device
- polyhedron
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