prism
棱镜,棱柱,棱台,棱角
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Definitions
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- : 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 between the world and the eyes of a young girl?