prisms in English

noun
1
a solid geometric figure whose two end faces are similar, equal, and parallel rectilinear figures, and whose sides are parallelograms.
Volumes of solids such as prisms , pyramids, tetrahedrons, wedges, cylinders and truncated cones are calculated.

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1. Optical lenses, prisms and gibs

2. Diffraction gratings are like prisms.

3. Birefringent Polarizing Prisms - Java Tutorial

4. Compasses, barometers, prisms, binoculars, alidades, compasses for drawing

5. having different deflection angles, several partial prisms (P¿ij?)

6. Beryl (n.) hard, lustrous mineral occurring in hexagonal prisms, c

7. Cuboids are also called right prisms, rectangular parallelepipeds and rectangular boxes

8. Sub prisms do not work with bezier splines in POV-Ray

9. The adaxial part consists of prisms (P) and of lateral plates (LP).

10. Crossed Nicoll prisms cause Birefringent material to appear bright against a dark background.

11. Moreover, the vertices of his prisms did not always conveniently coincide with the surveyed heights.

12. Churros are generally prisms in shape, and may be straight, curled or spirally twisted.

13. Clamping tools and devices, grippers and chucks therefor, clamping jaws, angle guides, bearing rails, prisms

14. Sir Isaac Newton’s 17th-century experiments with prisms led to an understanding of light refraction.

15. Birefringent prisms include the Nicol prism, Glan-Foucault prism, Glan-Thompson prism, and Wollaston prism

16. In eight of these patients, additional strabismologic therapy, including prisms or strabismus surgery, was successful.

17. The roof and vault entrance are filled with highly reflective stainless steel, mirrors, and prisms.

18. Pockets of hot and cold air in the atmosphere act like prisms and lenses, distorting incoming starlight.

19. 9 Other shapes were used too, such as cones, prisms, stamps, and even animals and birds.

20. This gives it a whitish sparkle as light catches millions of tiny prisms and reflects white light.

21. The individual prisms are usually slender, with one Beveled, wedge-like end, but are sometimes needle-like

22. Even more amazing, archaeologists found Sennacherib’s own annals —yearly reports of events, recorded on clay cylinders, or prisms.

23. Each prism (60) is adjacent or contacting two other prisms (60) to encompass the non prism area (90).

24. 5 Since Renaissance times, clear glass has been fashioned into prisms, mirrors and lenses that diffract and focus visible light.

25. Andalusite definition is - a mineral consisting of a silicate of aluminum usually in thick orthorhombic prisms of various colors.

26. This interactive tutorial explores how various common Birefringent polarizing prisms operate to split light waves into ordinary and extraordinary components.

27. Authigenic ferrimagnetic iron sulfides, essentially greigite (Fe3S4), are commonly found in gas hydrate-bearing marine sediments of active accretionary prisms

28. The crystals behave like prisms and mirrors, refracting and reflecting light between their faces, sending shafts of light in particular directions.

29. Anhaline, C 10 H 17 NO, is an alkaloid crystallizing in colorless stellate prisms, which has been extracted from L

30. The Assyrians, and later the Babylonians, wrote their history on clay tablets, as well as on cylinders, prisms, and monuments.

31. This interactive tutorial explores how various common Birefringent polarizing prisms operate to split light waves into ordinary and extraordinary components.

32. Key words: alkali-aggregate reaction, concrete, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, laboratory testing, field evidence, pattern cracking, prisms, mortar bars, prevention, management.

33. Some Cenozoic Cardiids then evolved wider first-order crossed lamellae, non-denticular composite prisms, composite fibrous prisms, ontogenetic submergence of a juvenile non-denticular composite prismatic outer shell layer into the CL middle shell layer, or ontogenetic submergence of the inner part of a juvenile fibrous prismatic outer shell

34. A transparent to translucent glassy mineral, essentially aluminum Beryllium silicate, Be3Al2Si6O18, occurring in hexagonal prisms and constituting the chief source of Beryllium

35. The imaging structures preferably contain identical lens modules, most preferably identical Petzval lenses, and achromatic or apochromatic prisms of different spatial orientations.

36. Then we'll track its progress through our social group and interpret the results through the competing academic prisms of memetic theory, algebraic gossip and epidemiology.

37. They can be used in optical systems such as lenses, prisms, corrected lens systems, achromatic lenses, lighting and projection systems, waveguides, optical coatings and substrates for optical coatings.

38. The porro prisms are on the inside sealed with putty, thus reducing the number of glass/ air boundary surfaces and lowering the portion of reflected light.

39. As light passes through the 60° apex angle of the hexagonal ice prisms it is deflected twice resulting in deviation angles ranging from 22° to 50°.

40. The real number of different shapes is lower, since some configurations are spatially impossible (because they would require multiple prisms to occupy the same region of space).

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42. It consists of a strongly deformed pre-Neoproterozoic basement and Neoproterozoic oceanic rocks containing ophiolite, accretionary prisms, arc-related and high-pressure metamorphic rocks dated to 900-520 Ma.

43. The basic concept of soil Arching is that a part of the weight of the soil (and any surcharge) is transferred between the soil prism over the conduit and adjacent soil prisms.

44. What is Corundum and What are its Basic Qualities? Corundum is an aluminum oxide that commonly forms hexagonal barrel-shaped prisms that taper at both ends or as thin tabular hexagonal plates

45. Compressive strength test results of field-removed masonry units and assemblies are expected to vary from, and will likely be less than, Compressive strength test results of new masonry units and newly assembled prisms

46. He constructed shaped blocks of gelatine, subjected them to various stresses, and with a pair of polarising prisms given to him by William Nicol, viewed the coloured fringes that had developed within the jelly.

47. You'll find thousands of lenses, mirrors, prisms, precision optics and optical equipment such as microscopes,spectrometers, etc as well as beamsplitters, Achromats, eyepieces, optical flats, mirror blanks, lens blanks, filters, and other optical and electronic stuff.

48. Here the positions 0, 1, 2 and 3 are always based on the degrees of twist between the right-hand prisms relative to the left-hand prism, when viewed from the right of the axis of rotation.

49. Poly(ethylene terephthalate) film with a thickness of less than 300 μm according to ASTM D2103, having on one side prisms of acrylic resin with a prism angle of 90o and a prism pitch of 50 μm

50. Binocular definition, an optical device, providing good depth effect, for use with both eyes, consisting of two small telescopes fitted together side by side, each telescope having two prisms between the eyepiece and objective for erecting the image