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 

• OPTICAL PRISM (noun)

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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)

scope; telescope (a magnifier of images of distant objects)