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prism

noun

Optical device having a triangular shape and made of glass or quartz; used to deviate a beam or invert an image

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Word Facts

Word length
5
Starts with
P
Ends with
M
Contains
RI
Scrabble score
9
CEFR level
C1

How it sounds

Pronunciation

ˈpɹɪzəm

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noun

  1. Optical device having a triangular shape and made of glass or quartz; used to deviate a beam or invert an image

noun

  1. A polyhedron with two congruent and parallel faces (the bases) and whose lateral faces are parallelograms

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