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roof prism

roof prism noun: 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 where the faces meet.

Noun

roof prism (plural roof prisms)

  1. 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 where the faces meet.

Forms of roof prism

pluralroof prisms

Questions about roof prism

What does roof prism mean?
Roof prism means 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 where the faces meet.
What part of speech is roof prism?
Roof prism is a noun.
What is the plural of roof prism?
The plural of roof prism is roof prisms.

Words near roof prism in the dictionary

  1. roof of the mouth
  2. Roof of the World
  3. roof over
  4. roof over one's head
  5. roof over the head
  6. roof prism
  7. roof prisms
  8. roof rabbit
  9. roof rabbits
  10. roof rack
  11. roof racks

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