Prism (disambiguation)

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A prism is a transparent optical component with flat surfaces that refract light.

Prism may also refer to:

Science and mathematics

• Dispersive prism, an optical prism, usually triangular, used to disperse light into its spectral colours
• Prism (geometry), a kind of polyhedron
• Prism (geology), a type of sedimentary deposit

Government

• PRISM (surveillance program), an electronic surveillance program run by the US National Security Agency
• PRISM (website), an educational portal website for Indiana teachers
• Oregon Performance Reporting Information System, a state agency

Media and entertainment

Publications

• Prism (comics), a Marvel Comics character
• Prism International, a Canadian literary magazine
• PRism (journal), an academic journal covering public relations
• ASEE Prism, the flagship publication of the American Society for Engineering Education
• Prism (planet), a planet in the Humanx Commonwealth novels by Alan Dean Foster
• Prism Comics, an organization that supports LGBT people in the comics industry

Music

• Prism Records, an American record label
• Prism (band), a Canadian rock band
  • Prism (Prism album), the debut album of the Canadian band
• Prism (Japanese band), a jazz fusion band
• Prism (Beth Nielsen Chapman album)
• Prism (Jeff Scott Soto album)
• Prism (Yoshida Brothers album)
• Prism (Katy Perry album)

Other

• PRISM (TV network), a defunct cable television channel in Philadelphia, United States
• Prism (street artist), street artist from Melbourne, Australia
• Prism Leisure Corporation, a distribution and publishing company in the United Kingdom
• Prism Awards, an award for portrayals of substance abuse and mental health in entertainment

Computing

• Publishing Requirements for Industry Standard Metadata, XML metadata vocabularies for syndicating, aggregating, post-processing and multi-purposing content

Hardware

• Prism (chipset), a wireless networking chipset
• Apollo PRISM, a microprocessor made by Apollo Computer
• DEC Prism, a microprocessor made by Digital Equipment Corporation
• SGI Prism, a computer
• Prism Micro Products, a British telecommunications company that produced modems for the Micronet 800 network

Software

• Delphi Prism, a software development environment for .NET and Mono
• Mozilla Prism, a software product for desktop integration of web applications
• PRISM model checker, a probabilistic model checker
• GraphPad Prism, software for scientific graphing, biostatistics and curve fitting

Other uses

• PRISM (reactor), a small nuclear power plant design
• Prism Rail, a British passenger rail company
• Prism Motorsports, a NASCAR team
• Nokia Prism, a fashion mobile phone collection
• Prism Ridge, a small ridge in Antarctica
• The Prism (Dubai), a 36-floor tower in Dubai, United Arab Emirates
• PRISM, a student program at Odle Middle School, United States

See also

• Prismatic (disambiguation)
• PRISM: Guard Shield, a first-person shooter video game
• Prism: Light the Way, a two-dimensional puzzle video game
• PR/SM, an IBM mainframe hypervisor
• Deck prism, a way of transmitting light from the sun to the inside of a boat
• Prism correction, a component of some eyeglass prescriptions
• Tidal prism, the volume of water in an area between high and low tide

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