(noun.) optical device having a triangular shape and made of glass or quartz; used to deviate a beam or invert an image.
(noun.) a polyhedron with two congruent and parallel faces (the bases) and whose lateral faces are parallelograms.
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双语例句
Of course I submitted to him, because it was my duty; it was my feeling for him, said Dorothea, looking through the prism of her tears. 乔治·艾略特.米德尔马契.
Thus by the prism and the blowpipe were the same substances found in the sun, the stars, and the earth. 威廉·亨利·杜利特.世纪发明.
Newton in the next century, with the prism, decomposed light, and in a darkened chamber reproduced all the colours and tints of the rainbow. 威廉·亨利·杜利特.世纪发明.
Donkin and Bacon proposed placing the types upon a prism, which was to revolve against an irregularly shaped cylinder, on which the paper was to be placed. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔.伟大的事实.
Hence, when an object is looked at through a prism, it is seen quite out of place. 伯莎M.克拉克.科学通论.
Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes, and prism are all very good words for the lips: especially prunes and prism. 查尔斯·狄更斯.小杜丽.
Here it seemed to Little Dorrit that a change came over the Marshalsea spirit of their society, and that Prunes and Prism got the upper hand. 查尔斯·狄更斯.小杜丽.
Kirchoff happened to let a solar ray pass through a flame coloured with sodium, and through a prism, so that the spectrum of the sun and the flame fell one upon another. 威廉·亨利·杜利特.世纪发明.
We can show that when light passes through a prism and is refracted, forming a spectrum, as in Section 127, it is accompanied by heat. 伯莎M.克拉克.科学通论.
But the red rays pass through the second prism, are refracted, and bent from this course, and no new colors appear, no new spectrum is formed. 伯莎M.克拉克.科学通论.
To answer that question, let us very carefully insert a second prism in the path of the rays which issue from the first prism, carefully barring out the remaining six kinds of rays. 伯莎M.克拉克.科学通论.
On its top is an object glass which takes in all objects within its range and transmits an image of them through a right-angled prism and down the tube. 佚名.神奇的知识之书.
Another modification of Prunes and Prism insinuated itself on Little Dorrit's notice very shortly after their arrival. 查尔斯·狄更斯.小杜丽.
If the red light is compound, it will be broken up into its constituent parts and will form a typical spectrum of its own, just as white light did after its passage through a prism. 伯莎M.克拉克.科学通论.
When looked at through the prism, _A_ seems to be at _S_. 伯莎M.克拉克.科学通论.
Their lenses for telescopes and microscopes and photographic cameras, and glass and prisms, and for all chemical and other scientific work, have a worldwide reputation. 威廉·亨利·杜利特.世纪发明.
By means of other lenses and prisms an image of the external object is thus made visible to those within the submarine. 佚名.神奇的知识之书.
Lenses are very similar to prisms; indeed, two prisms placed as in Figure 69, and rounded off, would make a very good convex lens. 伯莎M.克拉克.科学通论.