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A polyhedron of which two faces are congruent polygons in parallel planes, and the other faces are parallelograms (see illustration). The bases B are the congruent polygons; the lateral faces are the parallelograms; the lateral edges are the edges not lying in the bases; and the perpendicular distance between the bases is the altitude h. Sections parallel to the bases are congruent to the bases. A prism is a right prism if its lateral edges are perpendicular to the bases; an oblique prism otherwise. A prism is called a triangular prism if its bases are triangles; a pentagonal prism if its bases are pentagons; and a parallelepiped if its bases are parallelograms. The volume of any prism is equal to the area of its base times its altitude (V = Bh). See also Polyhedron.

Prism configurations. (a) Right. (b) Oblique.

(1) (PhotoRefractive Information Storage Materials Consortium) A collaboration of IBM, Stanford University, GTE, Hughes Research Labs, Optitek, SRI International and Rockwell Science Center that is funded by the U.S. government's Advanced Research Projects Agency for the purpose of researching holographic storage.

(2) (PRogrammable Integrated Scripts for Mirror) The programming language for the Mirror communications programs.

(3) See PR/SM.

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A solid figure in geometry with bases or ends of the same size and shape and sides that have parallel edges. Also, an object that has this shape.

1. any polyhedron of which two faces are polygons in parallel planes and the other faces are parallelograms.
2. a crystal form of which three or more faces are parallel to one axis.
3. a solid, bounded in part by two nonparallel plane faces and made of material transparent in the relevant region of the spectrum, that is used in optics to invert an image or to disperse or deviate a beam of light.

• Geometric Shapes and Mathematically Defined Forms - prism: three-dimensional figure with two parallel, congruent, polygon-shaped bases
• Shapes - prism: polyhedron with two polygonal faces lying in parallel planes and other faces being parallelograms

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Prism may refer to:

Science and mathematics

• Prism (optics), a transparent object which refracts light
  • Dispersive prism, the most familiar type of optical prism
• Prism (geometry), a kind of polyhedron
• Prism (geology), a type of sedimentary deposit

Media and entertainment

Books, comics and magazines

• Prism (comics), a Marvel Comics character
• Prism magazine (New Zealand), a Christian periodical
• PRISM international, a Canadian literary magazine
• ASEE Prism, the flagship publication of the American Society for Engineering Education

Music

• Prism (band), a Canadian rock band
  • Prism (Prism album), the debut album of the Canadian band
• Prism (Japanese band), a jazz fusion band
• Prism (Jeff Scott Soto album)
• Prism (Yoshida Brothers album)
• Prism Records, a record label
• Prism, a marimba piece by Keiko Abe

Multi Channel Publishing

• PRISM - Publishing Requirements for Industry Standard Metadata (XML metadata vocabularies for syndicating, aggregating, post-processing and multi-purposing content.)

Other

• PRISM (TV channel), a defunct cable television channel in Philadelphia
• Prism (street artist), a street artist from Melbourne , Australia

Computing and software

• PRISM (chipset), a wireless networking chipset
• Apollo PRISM, a microprocessor made by Apollo Computer
• DEC PRISM, a microprocessor made by Digital Equipment Corporation
• Delphi Prism, a software development environment for .NET and Mono
• Mozilla Prism, a software product for desktop integration of web applications
• SGI Prism, a computer
• IBM's PR/SM, a mainframe hypervisor
• PRISM model checker, a probabilistic model checker
• GraphPad Prism, software for scientific graphing, biostatistics and curve fitting (nonlinear regression), available for Windows and Mac

Education

• PRISM (website), an educational portal website for teachers

Other meanings

• Nokia Prism, a fashion mobile phone collection
• Oregon Performance Reporting Information System, a state agency
• Prism Micro Products, a British telecommunications company that produced modems for the Micronet 800 network

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n. - (οπτ.) πρίσμα

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призма

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棱镜, 棱柱

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n. - 棱鏡, 棱柱

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n. - 프리즘, 분광기

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n. - プリズム, 角柱

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‏(الاسم) موشور, منشور‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮מנסרה‬

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