Phrase Hound found 16 phrases and 10 compound words that contain prisms. The most common are listed below. Open prisms in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 16
- hexagonal prismsplural of hexagonal prism: any prism, an octahedron, constructed on a hexagonal base
- Nicol prismsplural of Nicol prism: An optical device used to generate polarized light.
- triangular prismsplural of triangular prism: A prism with a triangular base.
- accretionary prismsplural of accretionary prism: The accumulation of surface sediment formed between a subducting oceanic crustal plate and a continental tectonic plate, as it is scraped from off the top of the oceanic crustal plate.
- Amici prismsplural of Amici prism: A kind of compound dispersive prism used in spectrometers, consisting of two triangular prisms in contact, with the first typically made from a medium-dispersion crown glass, and the second from a higher-dispersion …
- Dove prismsplural of Dove prism: A kind of reflective prism used to invert the orientation of an image.
- irregular prismsplural of irregular prism: a prism whose cross section is an irregular polygon
- roof prismsplural of roof prism: A reflective optical prism containing a section where two faces meet at a 90° angle, resembling the roof of a building. Reflection from the two 90° faces returns an image that is flipped laterally across the axis …
- wedge prismsplural of wedge prism: A prism with a shallow angle between its input and output surfaces.
- Porro prismsplural of Porro prism: A reflection prism used in optical instruments to alter the orientation of an image. It consists of a block of glass shaped as a right geometric prism with right-angled triangular end faces.
- Rochon prismsplural of Rochon prism: A polarizer made from two prisms of a birefringent material such as calcite, which are cemented together.
- Wollaston prismsplural of Wollaston prism: An optical device that separates randomly polarized or unpolarized light into two orthogonal linearly polarized outgoing beams.
- pentagonal prismsplural of pentagonal prism: A prism with a pentagonal base.
- Nomarski prismsplural of Nomarski prism: A modified type of Wollaston prism very similar to the Glan–Thompson prism.
- clino-prismsplural of clino-prism: A prism of a monoclinic crystal lying between the unit prism and the clinopinacoid.
- Sénarmont prismsplural of Sénarmont prism: A polarizing prism very similar to the Rochon prism, except that certain rays that remain in the Rochon prism are instead deflected.
Compound words 10
- nanoprismsplural of nanoprism: A nanoscale prism
- antiprismsplural of antiprism: A polyhedron composed of two parallel copies of some particular polygon, connected by an alternating band of triangles.
- duoprismsplural of duoprism: A polytope resulting from the Cartesian product of two polytopes.
- foreprismsplural of foreprism: A prism the light is passed through before entering a spectrometer.
- hemiprismsplural of hemiprism: A half-prism.
- hyperprismsplural of hyperprism: A prism that extends into hyperspace, having more than three dimensions.
- macroprismsplural of macroprism: A prism of an orthorhombic crystal between the macropinacoid and the unit prism; the corresponding pyramids are called macropyramids.
- microprismsplural of microprism: Any of many very small prisms used, either to form a reflective surface, or to form an area in a camera's viewfinder that blurs if the image is not precisely in focus
- pentaprismsplural of pentaprism: A five-sided prism used in the viewfinder of most single-lens reflex cameras
- orthoprismsplural of orthoprism: A prism which has its faces parallel to its vertical axis.