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    In geometry, a prism is a polyhedron comprising an n-sided polygon base, a second base which is a translated copy (rigidly moved without rotation) of...
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  • that refract light Prism (geometry), a kind of polyhedron Prism may also refer to: Prism (geology), a type of sedimentary deposit Prism (surveying), a type...
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  • Thumbnail for Triangular prism
    In geometry, a triangular prism or trigonal prism is a prism with 2 triangular bases. If the edges pair with each triangle's vertex and if they are perpendicular...
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    media related to Prisms. Minimum deviation Multiple-prism dispersion theory Prism compressor Prism dioptre Prism spectrometer Prism (geometry) Theory of Colours...
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    sphere and its interior. Solid geometry deals with the measurements of volumes of various solids, including pyramids, prisms (and other polyhedrons), cubes...
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  • Thumbnail for Hexagonal prism
    In geometry, the hexagonal prism is a prism with hexagonal base. Prisms are polyhedrons; this polyhedron has 8 faces, 18 edges, and 12 vertices. Since...
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    Cylinder (redirect from Cylinder (geometry))
    most basic of curvilinear geometric shapes. In elementary geometry, it is considered a prism with a circle as its base. A cylinder may also be defined...
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  • Thumbnail for Dispersive prism
    In optics, a dispersive prism is an optical prism that is used to disperse light, that is, to separate light into its spectral components (the colors...
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  • Thumbnail for Octagonal prism
    In geometry, the octagonal prism is a prism comprising eight rectangular sides joining two regular octagon caps. The octagonal prism can also be seen...
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    another special case of rectangular prism, known as square rectangular cuboid. They can be represented as the prism graph Π 4 {\displaystyle \Pi _{4}}...
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    In geometry, the pentagonal prism is a prism with a pentagonal base. It is a type of heptahedron with seven faces, fifteen edges, and ten vertices. If...
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    triangular prism, in geometry, is a convex polyhedron with 14 equilateral triangles as its faces. It can be constructed from a triangular prism by attaching...
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    In geometry, the heptagonal prism is a prism with heptagonal base. This polyhedron has 9 faces (2 bases and 7 sides), 21 edges, and 14 vertices. The area...
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  • Thumbnail for Pellin–Broca prism
    by 90° is changed without changing the geometry or relative positions of the input and output beams. The prism is commonly used to separate a single required...
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    applied in plane geometry to triangles, parallelograms, trapezoids, and in solid geometry to cylinders, cones, pyramids, parallelepipeds, prisms, and frustums...
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  • Thumbnail for Tricapped trigonal prismatic molecular geometry
    central atom, defining the vertices of a triaugmented triangular prism (a trigonal prism with an extra atom attached to each of its three rectangular faces)...
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  • Thumbnail for Multiple-prism dispersion theory
    description of multiple-prism dispersion, as a function of the angle of incidence, prism geometry, prism refractive index, and number of prisms, was introduced...
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  • Thumbnail for Octahedral molecular geometry
    In chemistry, octahedral molecular geometry, also called square bipyramidal, describes the shape of compounds with six atoms or groups of atoms or ligands...
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    dichroic prism is a prism that splits light into two beams of differing wavelength (colour). A trichroic prism assembly combines two dichroic prisms to split...
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  • Absolute geometry Affine geometry Algebraic geometry Analytic geometry Birational geometry Complex geometry Combinatorial geometry Computational geometry Conformal...
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    Cube (redirect from Rhombic prism)
    In geometry, a cube is a three-dimensional solid object bounded by six square faces, facets, or sides, with three meeting at each vertex. Viewed from a...
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    Tesseract (redirect from Cubic prism)
    Look up tesseract in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In geometry, a tesseract or 4-cube is a four-dimensional hypercube, analogous to a two-dimensional...
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    Antiprism (redirect from Anti-prism)
    N.W. Johnson: Geometries and Transformations, (2018) ISBN 978-1-107-10340-5 Chapter 11: Finite symmetry groups, 11.3 Pyramids, Prisms, and Antiprisms...
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    atoms are 9-fold coordinated by chlorine atoms in a tricapped trigonal prism geometry. Einsteinium(III) bromide (EsBr3) is a pale-yellow solid with a monoclinic...
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  • Prism Triangular prism, Pentagonal prism, Hexagonal prism, Heptagonal prism, Octagonal prism, Enneagonal prism, Decagonal prism, Hendecagonal prism,...
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    In geometry, the dodecagonal prism is the tenth in an infinite set of prisms, formed by square sides and two regular dodecagon caps. If faces are all...
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  • Thumbnail for Augmented triangular prism
    In geometry, the augmented triangular prism is a polyhedron constructed by attaching an equilateral square pyramid onto the square face of a triangular...
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  • Thumbnail for History of geometry
    Geometry (from the Ancient Greek: γεωμετρία; geo- "earth", -metron "measurement") arose as the field of knowledge dealing with spatial relationships. Geometry...
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    Hexagonal tiling honeycomb (category Honeycombs (geometry))
    In the field of hyperbolic geometry, the hexagonal tiling honeycomb is one of 11 regular paracompact honeycombs in 3-dimensional hyperbolic space. It is...
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  • Thumbnail for Trigonal prismatic molecular geometry
    are arranged around a central atom, defining the vertices of a triangular prism. Hexamethyltungsten (W(CH3)6) was the first example of a molecular trigonal...
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