Prism

n. piece of transparent glass or crystal with triangular bases (used to separate light into the colors of the spectrum); solid figure whose ends are equal and parallel polygons and whose faces are parallelograms (Geometry)

Prism may refer to:Prism (optics), a device used to refract lightTriangular prism (optics), the most familiar type of optical prismPrism (geometry)Prism (algorithm)Prism magazine, one of several periodicalsPrism, a high-end television brand briefly sold in the early 1990s. Made by Panasonic and essentially superceded by Panasonic's "SuperFlat" TVs.Prism (TV channel)Prism (band), the Canadian rock bandPrism (album), their 1977 debut albumPrism (Japanese band), Japanese jazz fusion bandPrism (fictional planet), the fictional world which is introduced in Alan Dean Foster's book Sentenced to PrismPrism (comics), a Marvel Comics character.Prism Records, a record labelPrism Micro Products, a defunct British companySGI Prism, A computer manufactured by Silicon Graphics.
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Noun
1. a polyhedron with two congruent and parallel faces (the bases) and whose lateral faces are parallelograms
(hypernym) polyhedron
(hyponym) parallelepiped, parallelopiped, parallelepipedon, parallelopipedon
2. optical device having a triangular shape and made of glass or quartz; used to deviate a beam or invert an image
(synonym) optical prism
(hypernym) optical device
(hyponym) erecting prism
(part-holonym) biprism

(n.)
A transparent body, with usually three rectangular plane faces or sides, and two equal and parallel triangular ends or bases; -- used in experiments on refraction, dispersion, etc.
  

(n.)
A solid whose bases or ends are any similar, equal, and parallel plane figures, and whose sides are parallelograms.
  

(n.)
A form the planes of which are parallel to the vertical axis. See Form, n., 13.
  

A distributed logic language.
["PRISM: A Parallel Inference System for Problem Solving", S. Kasif et al, Proc 1983 Logic Prog Workshop, pp. 123-152].