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English noun: prism | |||
| 1. | prism (shape) a polyhedron with two congruent and parallel faces (the bases) and whose lateral faces are parallelograms | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | polyhedron | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | parallelepiped, parallelepipedon, parallelopiped, parallelopipedon, quadrangular prism, triangular prism | ||
| 2. | prism (artifact) optical device having a triangular shape and made of glass or quartz; used to deviate a beam or invert an image | ||
| Synonyms | optical prism | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | optical device | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | erecting prism | ||
| Part meronym | biprism, prism spectroscope, scope, spectroscope, telescope | ||
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