Word Meanings - PRISMY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pertaining to 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.
• PRISMOIDAL
  Having the form of a prismoid; as, prismoidal solids.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• PRISMOID
  A body that approaches to the form of a prism.
• 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.
• PRISMY
  Pertaining to a prism.
• DIPRISMATIC
  Doubly prismatic.
• MACROPRISM
  A prism of an orthorhombic crystal between the macropinacoid and the unit prism; the corresponding pyramids are called macropyramids.
• 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.
• APPERTAIN
  To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach