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prism

/priz-uhm/US // ˈprɪz əm //UK // (ˈprɪzəm) //

棱镜,棱柱,棱台,棱角

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Optics. a transparent solid body, often having triangular bases, used for dispersing light into a spectrum or for reflecting rays of light.
    • : Geometry. a solid having bases or ends that are parallel, congruent polygons and sides that are parallelograms.
    • : Crystallography. a form having faces parallel to the vertical axis and intersecting the horizontal axes.

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Examples

  • That one went quickly out to the left, where Smith caught it and made a breathtaking passage around three Ohio State defenders in the last little prism of space available on the left side of the field, stopping only 22 yards later.

  • The scientists could watch through a tiny prism as neurons fired and lit up.

  • The favored approach to understanding colonial rule, particularly in Africa, is through the prism of political governance—how the colonial authority was imposed through local or native authorities.

  • Try placing some plastic wrap or a prism over the lens to test out different effects in refracting the light.

  • The viewfinder has moved over to the top left corner of the body—the A7 line puts it at the top where the prism would be on a DSLR.

  • I recognize my inability to truly understand these events in the same context or view these events through exactly the same prism.

  • You had the PRISM program, and you also have National Security letters.

  • He pops from the screen as a charismatic, occasionally messianic “human prism,” as Moss calls him.

  • Snowden himself exposed a program known as PRISM that provided these so-called back doors to the NSA in the United States.

  • Mistakes happen, nuance is often lost, and everything is seen through a prism of who is winning and who is losing.

  • At eighteen does not love hold a prism between the world and the eyes of a young girl?

  • His name and his bright past, seen through the prism of whispered gossip, had gained him the nickname of The Admiral.

  • It was an irregular trapezium, a mass struck off from the colossal granitic prism of the Great Douvre.

  • A theme taken from a medival author; an antique figure, that of Virgil, but seen through the prism of modern poetry.

  • Analysis by the prism alone has quite doubled the knowledge that was previously available.