prisms
- plural of prism.
Example Sentences
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Traditional spectrometers work by splitting light into its component colors using prisms or gratings, then measuring the intensity of each wavelength.
From Science Daily • May 26, 2026
And then there are the rectangular prisms jutting out of the floor, standing 20 feet apart from the last, with LED screens blasting clips from the movie into viewers’ subconscious.
From Salon • Apr. 20, 2026
Images afterward show bags were placed around a few of Golestan’s massive chandeliers to catch any falling crystal prisms.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
Spectrographs: Gratings or prisms separate incoming light into spectra to reveal the intensity of individual wavelengths.
From Scientific American • Dec. 1, 2022
The room is lit by a pair of green-shaded banker’s lamps, and in the shadows Werner can see shelves crowded with encyclopedias, models of windmills, miniature telescopes, prisms.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
