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
- Prism (geometry), a kind of polyhedron
- Prism (geology), a type of sedimentary deposit
Government
- PRISM (surveillance program), a 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
- The Prism Pentad, a series of Dungeons & Dragons novels by Troy Denning
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 (Dave Holland album)
- Prism (Jeff Scott Soto album)
- Prism (Katy Perry album)
- Prism (Matthew Shipp album)
- Prism (Yoshida Brothers 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
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: 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
- Geo Prizm, car by Chevrolet
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