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prism

[priz-uhm] / ˈprɪz əm /


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Copper’s price rally has to be understood through this prism, Cryer maintains.

From MarketWatch Sep. 10, 2026

Of course, some people will view Brook's innings through the prism of what has come before.

From BBC Aug. 20, 2026

Certain that Ingres had used something optical to achieve that quality, Hockney bought himself a camera lucida, a small device that works like a prism.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 12, 2026

They also examined spectra, which are created when light is separated into its component wavelengths, much like a prism creating a rainbow.

From Science Daily Jun. 11, 2026

On the coach’s nightstand sat a bowl of water, a stack of golden drachmas, a flashlight, and a glass prism for making rainbows.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

About the size of a cookie, each array contains eight quartz corner cube prisms mounted inside a dome shaped aluminum frame.

From Science Daily Jul. 14, 2026

And then there are the rectangular prisms jutting out of the floor, standing 20 feet apart from the last, with LED screens blasting clips from the movie into viewers’ subconscious.

From Salon Apr. 20, 2026

Images afterward show bags were placed around a few of Golestan’s massive chandeliers to catch any falling crystal prisms.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 17, 2026

Spectrographs: Gratings or prisms separate incoming light into spectra to reveal the intensity of individual wavelengths.

From Scientific American Dec. 1, 2022

In the back of the room was a marble fireplace, big as a sepulchre, and a globed gasolier—dripping with prisms and strings of crystal beading—sparkled in the dim.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt




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