Amici prism

[ uh-mee-chee ]

/ əˈmi tʃi /

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noun Optics.

a compound prism that spreads out incident white light into a spectrum but produces no deviation of the central color of the dispersed beam.

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Also called direct-vision prism, roof prism.

Origin of Amici prism

Named after G. B.Amici (1784–1863), Italian astronomer

I recognize my inability to truly understand these events in the same context or view these events through exactly the same prism.
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You had the PRISM program, and you also have National Security letters.
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He pops from the screen as a charismatic, occasionally messianic “human prism,” as Moss calls him.
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Snowden himself exposed a program known as PRISM that provided these so-called back doors to the NSA in the United States.
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Mistakes happen, nuance is often lost, and everything is seen through a prism of who is winning and who is losing.
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At eighteen does not love hold a prism between the world and the eyes of a young girl?
At the Sign of the Cat and Racket|Honore de Balzac
His name and his bright past, seen through the prism of whispered gossip, had gained him the nickname of The Admiral.
Tales and Fantasies|Robert Louis Stevenson
It was an irregular trapezium, a mass struck off from the colossal granitic prism of the Great Douvre.
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A theme taken from a medival author; an antique figure, that of Virgil, but seen through the prism of modern poetry.
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Analysis by the prism alone has quite doubled the knowledge that was previously available.
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