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prism

[priz-uhm] / ˈprɪz əm /


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The cause is manifest and briefe: Because they be the halfes of the same prisma: As here thou maist perceive in a prisma cut into two halfes by the diagoni's of the opposite sides.

From The Way To Geometry by Bedwell, William

The measuring of a pentaedrall prisma was even now generally taught: The matter in speciall may be conceived in these two examples following.

From The Way To Geometry by Bedwell, William

A prisma is a pyramidate whose opposite plaines are equall, alike, and parallell, the rest parallelogramme.

From The Way To Geometry by Bedwell, William

The plaine of the base and heighth is the solidity of a right prisma.

From The Way To Geometry by Bedwell, William

A prisma is the triple of a pyramis of equall base and heighth.

From The Way To Geometry by Bedwell, William




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