Word Meanings - PRISMATICALLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In the form on manner of a prism; by means of a prism.

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• PRISM
  A solid whose bases or ends are any similar, equal, and parallel plane figures, and whose sides are parallelograms. Note: Prisms of different forms are often named from the figure of their bases; as, a triangular prism, a quadrangular
• PRISMATOIDAL
  Having a prismlike form. Ure.
• MANNERIST
  One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
• PRISMOIDAL
  Having the form of a prismoid; as, prismoidal solids.
• MANNERISM
  Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural
• PRISMOID
  A body that approaches to the form of a prism.
• MANNERLINESS
  The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale.
• MANNERED
  1. Having a certain way, esp a. polite way, of carrying and conducting one's self. Give her princely training, that she may be Mannered as she is born. Shak. 2. Affected with mannerism; marked by excess of some characteristic peculiarity. His style
• MANNER
  manual, skillful, handy, fr. LL. manarius, for L. manuarius 1. Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion. The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner
• PRISM GLASS
  Glass with one side smooth and the other side formed into sharp-edged ridges so as to reflect the light that passes through, used at windows to throw the light into the interior.
• PRISMATIC; PRISMATICAL
  See PRISM (more info) 1. Resembling, or pertaining to, a prism; as, a prismatic form or cleavage. 2. Separated or distributed by a prism; formed by a prism; as, prismatic colors.
• PRISMATICALLY
  In the form on manner of a prism; by means of a prism.
• MANNERCHOR
  A German men's chorus or singing club.
• MANNERLY
  Showing good manners; civil; respectful; complaisant. What thou thinkest meet, and is most mannerly. Shak.
• PRISMY
  Pertaining to a prism.
• DIPRISMATIC
  Doubly prismatic.
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• MACROPRISM
  A prism of an orthorhombic crystal between the macropinacoid and the unit prism; the corresponding pyramids are called macropyramids.
• OVERMANNER
  In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif.
• ILL-MANNERED
  Impolite; rude.
• WELL-MANNERED
  Polite; well-bred; complaisant; courteous. Dryden.
• BIPRISM
  A prism whose refracting angle is very nearly 180 degrees. 2. A combination of two short rectangular glass prisms cemented together at their diagonal faces so as to form a cube; -- called also optical cube. It is used in one form of photometer.