PRISM

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Optical device having a triangular shape and made of glass or quartz; used to deviate a beam or invert an image

Synonyms:

optical prism; prism

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("prism" is a kind of...):

optical device (a device for producing or controlling light)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "prism"):

erecting prism (a right-angled optical prism used to turn an inverted image upright)

Holonyms ("prism" is a part of...):

biprism (an optical device for obtaining interference fringes)

prism spectroscope; spectroscope (an optical instrument for spectrographic analysis)

scope; telescope (a magnifier of images of distant objects)

Derivation:

prismatic (exhibiting spectral colors formed by refraction of light through a prism)

prismatic (of or relating to or resembling or constituting a prism)

Meaning:

A polyhedron with two congruent and parallel faces (the bases) and whose lateral faces are parallelograms

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Hypernyms ("prism" is a kind of...):

polyhedron (a solid figure bounded by plane polygons or faces)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "prism"):

quadrangular prism (a prism whose bases are quadrangles)

triangular prism (a prism whose bases are triangles)

Derivation:

prismatic (of or relating to or resembling or constituting a prism)