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OPTICAL PRISM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does optical prism mean?
• OPTICAL PRISM (noun)
The noun OPTICAL PRISM has 1 sense:
1. optical device having a triangular shape and made of glass or quartz; used to deviate a beam or invert an image
Familiarity information: OPTICAL PRISM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Optical device having a triangular shape and made of glass or quartz; used to deviate a beam or invert an image
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
optical prism; prism
Hypernyms ("optical prism" is a kind of...):
optical device (a device for producing or controlling light)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "optical prism"):
erecting prism (a right-angled optical prism used to turn an inverted image upright)
Holonyms ("optical prism" is a part of...):
biprism (an optical device for obtaining interference fringes)
prism spectroscope; spectroscope (an optical instrument for spectrographic analysis)
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