Prism

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Prism usually refers to:

  • Prism (optics), a transparent optical component with flat surfaces that refract light
  • Prism (geometry), a kind of polyhedron

Prism may also refer to:

Science and mathematics

  • Prism (geology), a type of sedimentary deposit
  • Prism (surveying), a type of target
  • Prism correction, a component of some eyeglass prescriptions

Government

Media and entertainment

Publications

  • Prism (comics), a Marvel Comics character
  • Prism International, a Canadian literary magazine
  • PRISM: The Journal of Complex Operations, published by the National Defense University
  • ASEE Prism, the flagship publication of the American Society for Engineering Education
  • Prism Comics, an organization that supports LGBT people in the comics industry
  • The Prism Pentad, a series of Dungeons & Dragons novels by Troy Denning
  • Prism, a monthly on the post-Soviet states by the Jamestown Foundation

Music

  • Prism (band), a Canadian rock band
    • Prism (Prism album), the debut album of the Canadian band
  • Prism (Japanese band), a jazz fusion band
  • Prism (Beth Nielsen Chapman album)
  • Prism (Dave Holland album)
  • Prism (Jeff Scott Soto album)
  • Prism (Joanne Brackeen album)
  • Prism (Katy Perry album)
  • Prism (Matthew Shipp album)
  • Prism (Ryo Kawasaki album)
  • Prism (The Orb album)
  • Prism (Yoshida Brothers album)
  • Prism (Rainbow EP)
  • "Prism", a song from Lindsey Stirling's 2016 album Brave Enough
  • Prism Records, an American record label

Other

  • Prism (play), a 2017 play by Terry Johnson
  • Prism (opera), a 2018 opera by Ellen Reid
  • PRISM (TV network), a defunct cable television channel in Philadelphia, United States
  • Prism (street artist), street artist from Melbourne, Australia
  • Prism Leisure Corporation, a distribution and publishing company in the United Kingdom

Computing

Hardware

  • Prism (chipset), a wireless networking chipset
  • Apollo PRISM, a microprocessor made by Apollo Computer
  • DEC PRISM, a cancelled processor architecture designed by Digital Equipment Corporation
  • SGI Prism, a computer
  • Prism Micro Products, a British telecommunications company that produced modems for the Micronet 800 network
  • PR/SM, an IBM mainframe hypervisor

Software

  • Delphi Prism, a software development environment for .NET and Mono
  • Mozilla Prism, a software product for desktop integration of web applications
  • PRISM model checker, a probabilistic model checker
  • GraphPad Prism, software for scientific graphing, biostatistics and curve fitting

Other uses

  • PRISM (reactor), a small nuclear power plant design
  • A retroreflector, used in surveying
  • Prism Rail, a British passenger rail company
  • Prism Motorsports, a defunct NASCAR team
  • Nokia Prism, a fashion mobile phone collection
  • Prism (video game), a video game about manipulating 3D shapes

See also

Topics referred to by the same term
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