Definitions for PRISM

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PRISM prism

Spelling: [priz-uh m]

IPA: /ˈprɪz əm/

Prism is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 67 anagrams from letters in PRISM (imprs).

Definitions for PRISM

noun

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

Origin of PRISM

1560-70; Late Latin prīsma Greek prîsma literally, something sawed, akin to prī́zein to saw, prīstēs sawyer

Examples for PRISM

And what has become known as the prism program is not aimed at collecting the communications of Americans.

And earlier, Facebook, Google, and Twitter all criticized the NSA over its prism program.

Simba continued to stare, and Kingozi had lifted his prism glasses.

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

Now look for a pencil or a piece of chalk through the prism, in the same way.

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

Notice a rainbow, when possible, and form one with a prism in the schoolroom.

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

Hold a prism in the sunlight by the window and make a "rainbow" on the wall.

What colors of the prism are shown most in sunset or sunrise?