PRISM

in optics, a piece of translucent glass or crystal used to form a spectrum of light separated according to colors. Its cross section is usually triangular. The light becomes separated because different wavelengths or frequencies are refracted (bent) by different amounts as they enter the prism obliquely and again as they leave it (see refraction). The shorter wavelengths, toward the blue or violet end of the spectrum, are refracted by the greatest amount; the longer wavelengths, toward the red end, are refracted the least. The Nicol prism is a special type of prism made of calcite; it is used for polarization of light.

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Gender through the Prism of Difference
Book by Maxine Baca Zinn, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, Michael A. Messner; Oxford University Press, 2005
Subjects: Sex Role
...Introduction Sex and Gender Through the Prism of Difference en cant cry. Women are victims...of this book, we use the image of the prism of difference to illustrate our approach...The American Heritage Dictionary defines prism, in part, as a homogeneous transparent...
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The Magic Prism: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language
Book by Howard Wettstein; Oxford University Press, 2004
Subjects: Language And Languages--Philosophy, Wittgenstein, Ludwig--1889-1951--Contributions In Philosophy Of Language
The Magic Prism An Essay in the Philosophy of Language Howard Wettstein OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 2004
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William Lyon Mackenzie King: 1932-1939: the Prism of Unity
Book by H. Blair Neatby; University of Toronto Press, 1976
Subjects: King, William Lyon Mackenzie--1874-1950
...cultural, regional, and economic groups; he still saw his task as strengthening this association by fostering a sense of national partnership. His twenty years as Liberal leader suggest that this image of Canadian society, the prism through
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Adaptive Spatial Alignment
Book by Gordon M. Redding, Benjamin Wallace; Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1997
Subjects: Adaptation (Physiology), Perceptual-Motor Learning, Prisms, Space Perception
...For most people, prism adaptation is an...goggles containing prisms that optically displace...and, when the prisms are removed, we...careers investigating prism adaptation, it has...systems produced by prisms. Chapter 7, Theoretical...traditional issues in prism adaptation may be...
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International Dictionary of Physics and Electronics
Book by Walter C. Michels; Van Nostrand, 1956
...2 crown and one flint prisms are used, thus reducing...interfaces. Also see prism, roof. PRISM, BRASHEAR...Cornu made a compound prism by cementing together two 30-degree prisms, one of right-handed...left- handed quartz. PRISM, CORNU-JELLET. A...
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Europe through the Prism of Japan: Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries.
Journal article by Graham Parry; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 56, 2003
Subjects: Book reviews, Books--Book reviews, Europe Through the Prism of Japan: Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries (Book)
Europe through the Prism of Japan: Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries. . by Graham Parry Jacques Proust. Europe through the Prism of Japan: Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries. Trans. Elizabeth Bell. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame...
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Deformation Structures from the Toes of Active Accretionary Prisms
Journal article by Alex J. Maltman; Journal of the Geological Society, Vol. 155, 1998
Subjects: Geology, Oceans, Sediments
...which separates the prism from down-- going material. Such prisms provide a natural...modern, sub-ocean prisms. Folds on the scale...commonly reported from prism cores. Behrmann...clay-rich Barbados prism, where it is accompanied...developed in the prisms of elastic sediment...
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Reflection through the ID-PRISM: A Teacher Planning Tool to Transform Classrooms into Web-Enhanced Learning Environments
Journal article by Tiffany A. Koszalka, Barbara L. Grabowski, Marianne Mccarthy; Journal of Technology and Teacher Education, Vol. 11, 2003
Reflection through the ID-PRISM: A Teacher Planning Tool to Transform...Multidimensional perspectives (ID-PRISM) was developed as a reflection tool...research provided the foundation for ID-PRISM. This article discusses this literature...
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Petrophysically Determined Lithofacies at the Nankai Trough Accretionary Prism: Nantroseize, Iodp Expedition 314
Journal article by J. Tudge, M. A. Lovell, S. J. Davies, P. K. Harvey, S. Saito; Journal of the Geological Society, Vol. 166, 2009
...Lithofacies at the Nankai Trough Accretionary Prism: Nantroseize, Iodp Expedition 314 by...member sediment-dominated accretionary prism. Dominantly hemipelagic strata on the...overriding plate, forming a wide accretionary prism. The lower Shikoku Basin strata are carried...
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Viewing the Correlation Structure of Longitudinal Data through a PRISM
Journal article by Dale L. Zimmerman; The American Statistician, Vol. 54, 2000
Subjects: Mathematical models--Analysis, Matrices--Analysis, Statistical sampling--Analysis
...Scatterplot Matrix (PRISM), which complements...correlation structures. PRISMs corresponding to...Section 3 describes the PRISM in detail, and its...further illustrates the PRISMs use through the analysis...in the AR(2)s PRISM do not. The third...diagonals of both PRISMs exhibit random scatter...
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Prisms and Pyramids: Constructing Three-Dimensional Models to Build Understanding
Magazine article by Beverly A. Koester; Teaching Children Mathematics, Vol. 9, April 2003
Subjects: Children--Education, Geometry--Study and teaching, Instructional materials--Usage, Mathematics education--Curricula, Mathematics education--Methods, Mathematics--Study and teaching, Prisms (Optics)--Design and construction, Prisms--Design and construction, Pyramids (Geometry)--Design and construction
...paper model of a prism. The paper model shows the prisms faces. The straw model shows the prisms edges. By definition, a prism consists of all the...tighter joint. Oblique prisms and irregular pyramids...built a triangular prism. Then he pushed...
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Prism, Egfi Garner 22 Awards
Magazine article; ASEE Prism, Vol. 20, September 2010
Subjects: American Electric Power Co Inc, Interior design, Magazines
Prism, Egfi Garner 22 Awards A SEEs publication department is proud to announce that in 2010, Prism and eGFI -Engineering, Go for It - secured...eGFI Educational Program * September 2009 Prism, Entire Magazine ASSOCIATION OF EDUCATIONAL...
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Prism-e Study Links Primary Care to Elders' Mental Health
Magazine article by Noelle Downing; Aging Today, Vol. 25, March 2004
Prism-e Study Links Primary Care to Elders Mental...adults," said Levkoff, who directs Harvards PRISM-E (Primary Care Research in Substance...Coordinating Center, which is part of the national PRISM-E study. She continued, "Improving mental...
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Magnasync/moviola's New Flickerless Image Hollow Prism
Magazine article; American Cinematographer, Vol. 56, September 1975
...picture using the hollow prism is flickerless fully...editing flicker using solid prisms was by cutting the light...screen. With the hollow prism and the flickerless image...Moviolas new hollow prism is adaptable to their...is that hollow ground prisms have been around for...
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View from the Cockpitt
Magazine article by Beth Panitz; ASEE Prism, Vol. 7, May/Jun 1998
...Condit recently spoke with ASEE PRISMs senior editor Beth Panitz about...increasingly global marketplace. PRISM: At the ASEE Annual Conference...a much more critical part. PRISM: How does Boeing plan to keep...like the automobile industry. PRISM: What role do you think engineering...
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Prism Comes off the Rails after Being Hit by a Whole Host of Difficulties
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), December 9, 1998
Subjects: Prism Rail
Prism Comes off the Rails after Being Hit by a Whole Host of Difficulties. Train group Prism Rail, which runs a Cardiff to Birmingham...downturn in tourism added to its problems. Prism admitted disgruntled customers would take...
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Prism Founders Take a [Pounds Sterling
Newspaper article; December 17, 1996
Prism Founders Take a Pounds Sterling34m Ride on...None so merry as the 10 founder investors of Prism Rail, which floated on the Alternative Investment...They have been working and planning for Prism, unpaid, for three years. And they have...
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Downtown's Prisms
Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), April 7, 2010
Downtowns Prisms. Byline: The Register...through two very different prisms - and both are essential if...yes, loiter there. The prism that has received most attention...and panhandlers. Thats one prism. The other refracts light...
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Ambitious Infinite Snaps Up Prism
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), March 1, 2005
Ambitious Infinite Snaps Up Prism. Byline: Steve Pain A West Midland...sum - of IT hardware provider Prism, based in Alcester. Prism is a network infrastructure provider...based business to further growth. Prisms founder, Tony Rawlins, joins...
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My Amazing Prism Glasses Have Given Me Back My Sight; Craig Darby, the Husband of MoS Writer Lauren Booth, Was Left with Brain Damage and Loss of Vision after a Horrific Motorcycle Crash, but Now He Can See a Ray of Hope
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), August 29, 2010
Subjects: Brain damage
...powered Fresnel press-on prisms, with great success. The permanent...40 diopters. A 40-diopter prism increases vision expansion by 20 degrees. The strongest prism used in the lens is 57 diopters...degrees, but higher-powered prisms can be harder to use. The Peli...
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encyclopedia articles on: Prism  - 18 results

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Prism
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
PRISM in optics, a piece of translucent glass...by different amounts as they enter the prism obliquely and again as they leave it (see...end, are refracted the least. The Nicol prism is a special type of prism made of calcite...
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Nicol Prism
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
NICOL PRISM nik l, optical device invented (1828) by William Nicol of Edinburgh. It consists essentially of a crystal of calcite, or Iceland...
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Binocular
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...usually refers to the prism binocular, in which...the other by a pair of prisms before passing through...in the eyepiece. The prisms aid in reducing the length...which do not employ prisms and which usually have...than the telescopes in prism binoculars. A binocular...
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Pyroxene
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...three different systems orthorhombic, monoclinic, and triclinic but all have a fundamental prism with angles of 87 to 93 and cleavages parallel to the prism angles. They are commonly white, grayish white, greenish white, greenish black, black...
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Spectroscope
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...early 19th cent., light entered a slit and a collimating lens transformed the light into a thin beam of parallel rays. A prism then separated the beam into its spectrum. The observer then viewed the spectrum through a tube with a scale that was transposed...
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