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• The plesiohedra include such well-known shapes as the cube, hexagonal prism, rhombic dodecahedron, and truncated octahedron.From the entry plesiohedron
• “We feel liberated from the prism of the past,” he says.2023 December 2, Frederick Studemann, quoting Paul Lynch, “Civilisation is so easily lost”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London…. From the entry theocracy
• In the Grassmannian case, a prism tableau with colors ignored is a semistandard Young tableau.2015, Anna Weigandt, Alexander Yong, “The Prism tableau model for Schubert polynomials”, in arXiv. From the entry semistandard
• But there are solids constructed from two or more regular prisms that also pack space.2015, Claudi Alsina, Roger B. Nelsen, A Mathematical Space Odyssey: Solid Geometry in the 21st Century, →ISBN. From the entry gyrobifastigium
• An interesting example (with an equally interesting name) is the gyrobifastigium, constructed from two regular triangular prisms.2015, Claudi Alsina, Roger B. Nelsen, A Mathematical Space Odyssey: Solid Geometry in the 21st Century, →ISBN. From the entry gyrobifastigium
• As O'Meara has shown, the NP would become viewed through the prism of ideology and cod psycho-politics.2001, Hein Marais, South Africa: Limits to Change, page 16. From the entry psychopolitics
• As the name implies, grisms are a combination of a transmission grating and a prism.1994, T. M. Herbst, J. T. Rayner, “First Experiences With A Solid ZnSe Grism for Near Infrared Astronomy”, in Ian S. McLean, editor…. From the entry grism
• The continent edge would downflex as the ocean floor is loaded by a continental-rise prism.1967, Institute for Oceanography, Collected Reprints-national Ocean Survey, page 305. From the entry downflex
• Irregular prisms have a cross-section with no well known shape.2016, Kusum Wadhwa, Anju Loomba, Saraswati Mathematics, Saraswati House Pvt Ltd, →ISBN, page 234. From the entry irregular prism
• The shell presents a representative nacroprismatic microstructure, with columnar calcitic prisms in the upper and nacreous layer in the lower.2015 July 11, “Dual Roles of the Lysine-Rich Matrix Protein (KRMP)-3 in Shell Formation of Pearl Oyster, Pinctada fucata”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry nacroprismatic
• Prism map: Similar to a chloropleth, but in 3D.2013, Mark Stacey, Joe Salvatore, Adam Jorgensen, Visual Intelligence, page 354. From the entry chloropleth
• If greater than 40 prism diopter esotropia, some recommend bimedial recession with resection of one lateral rectus muscle.2011, George L. Spaeth, Helen Danesh-Meyer, Ivan Goldberg, Ophthalmic Surgery: Principles and Practice E-Book, page 467. From the entry recession
• Its success, usually viewed through the prism of the hypermarketed Ultimate Fighting Championship, has been building for years.2007 May 25, Richard Sandomir, “From the Edge of Madness to Fighting’s Mainstream”, in New York Times. From the entry hypermarketed
• It would be wholly misplaced to assess the Yeltsinian wager through the prism of our own Jeffersonian democracy.1992, Helen Purkitt, World politics, 92/93, page 73. From the entry Yeltsinian
• As along the eastern United States, continental shelves commonly acquire a prism of sediments as the continental margin downflexes.1974, Daniel N. Lapedes, McGraw-Hill encyclopedia of environmental science, page 114. From the entry downflex
• Calcite crystals show a great variety of habits — acute and obtuse rhombohedra and scalenohedra, prisms, and thin tabular forms.1940, John W. Evans, George MacDonald Davies, Elementary Crystallography, page 111. From the entry scalenohedron
• This was reduced at 12 months postoperatively to 1.75 prism diopters in the myectomies and to 3 prism diopters in the recessions.2015 June 10, Jasmina Alajbegovic-Halimic et al., “Recession Vs Myotomy–Comparative Analysis of Two Surgical Procedures of Weakening…. From the entry myectomies
• When two beams reconverge with the assistance of prisms, the phase difference between the two beams provides relieflike, high-contrast images of the specimen.1998, Daniel V. Lim, Microbiology. From the entry relieflike
• The number of trials to criterion, the total distance of misreach, and the distance of the initial misreach after donning the prism goggles were measured.1998, Jinhua Guan, The Effect of Aging on Adaptive Eye-hand Coordination, page 31. From the entry misreach
• Nishida's writings are a prism in which we can see refracted the manifaceted atmosphere of Japanese philosophy in the first half of this century.1993, Nishida Kitaro, Last Writings: Nothingness and the Religious Worldview. From the entry many-faceted
• The result is a prism providing a spectrum of Simon's work and offering the reader a glimpse into how their own ideas can be seen through a Simonian lens.2024, Gerd Gigerenzer, Shabnam Mousavi, Riccardo Viale, Elgar Companion to Herbert Simon, page 3. From the entry Simonian
• Although Fresnel prism may be used for full-time wear, if successfully worn, it is possible to replace it by ordering slab-off prism with the slab line oriented vertically.2023, Clifford W. Brooks, Although Fresnel prism may be used for full-time wear, if successfully worn, it is possible to replace it by…. From the entry slab line
• When neurologically healthy individuals are first exposed to displacing prisms, they typically misreach in the direction of the visual displacement when pointing towards a visual target.2004, Glyn Humphreys, Jane Riddoch, Attention in Action: Advances from Cognitive Neuroscience, page 319. From the entry misreach
• This error is dependent upon the direction of rotation or mislevel of the dihedral edge of the prism with respect to the theodolite line of sight.1974, Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports, page 84. From the entry mislevel
• Then, in the above example, to RPS lying on the equator there corresponds a prism, to those lying outside the equator, a pyramid, and to the polar point, a monohedron.2013, Boris K. Vainshtein, Fundamentals of Crystals, page 185. From the entry monohedron
• Our solid is a 17-sided prism, half of whose section is illustrated in Fig. 5, truncated obliquely as in the side view of Fig. 6, so it is an enneadecahedron.1990, Murray S. Klamkin, Problems in Applied Mathematics: Selections from SIAM Review, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics…. From the entry enneadecahedron
• A very hard, vitreouslike substance, composed of hexagonal prisms, with a common direction at right angles to the dentoenamel junction or line marking the union of the enamel and dentin.1917, Hospital Corps Quarterly, volumes 3-11, page 7. From the entry vitreouslike

Meaning of prism

1. noun An object having the shape of a geometrical prism (sense 1).
2. noun A cutting (“open passage at a level lower than the surrounding terrain, dug for a canal, railway, or road to go through”) or an embankment shaped like a prism (sense 1) or a number of prisms, such that its volume can be easily calculated.
3. noun A crystal in which the faces are parallel to the vertical axis.

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Questions about prism in a sentence

How do you use prism in a sentence?

Prism is used as a noun. For example: “The plesiohedra include such well-known shapes as the cube, hexagonal prism, rhombic dodecahedron, and truncated octahedron.”

What is a short sentence with prism?

“Prism map: Similar to a chloropleth, but in 3D.”

What does prism mean?

Prism means an object having the shape of a geometrical prism (sense 1).