- Look up
prism, prismatic, or
prisms in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Prism usually refers to:
Prism (optics), a
transparent optical component with flat...
- In geometry, the
hexagonal prism is a
prism with
hexagonal base.
Prisms are polyhedrons; this
polyhedron has 8 faces, 18 edges, and 12 vertices. Since...
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translations of the bases.
Prisms are
named after their bases, e.g. a
prism with a
pentagonal base is
called a
pentagonal prism.
Prisms are a
subclass of prismatoids...
- not
prisms. The most
familiar type of
optical prism is the
triangular prism,
which has a
triangular base and
rectangular sides. Not all
optical prisms are...
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octagonal prism can also be seen as a
tiling on a sphere: In optics,
octagonal prisms are used to
generate flicker-free
images in
movie projectors. It is an element...
- of
triangular prisms. They are
compound of four
triangular prisms,
compound of
eight triangular prisms,
compound of ten
triangular prisms,
compound of...
- 12, 2013.
Retrieved October 5, 2013. "NSA says
there are
three different PRISMs". Top
Level Telecommunications. July 26, 2013.
Archived from the original...
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prisms are
constructed from two
parallel uniform antiprisms): (p≥2) - - 2 p-gonal antiprisms,
connected by 2 p-gonal
prisms and 2p
triangular prisms....
- In geometry, the
pentagrammic prism is one of an
infinite set of
nonconvex prisms formed by
square sides and two
regular star
polygon caps, in this case...
- deck
prism, or bullseye, is a
prism inserted into the deck of a ship to
provide light down below. For centuries,
sailing ships used deck
prisms to provide...
