Noun
A solid whose bases or ends are any similar, equal, and parallel plane figures, and whose sides are parallelograms.
A transparent body, with usually three rectangular plane faces or sides, and two equal and parallel triangular ends or bases; -- used in experiments on refraction, dispersion, etc.
A form the planes of which are parallel to the vertical axis. See Form, n., 13.
Source: Webster's dictionaryWhere the statue stood Of Newton, with his prism and silent face, The marble index of a mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of thought alone. William Wordsworth
When we describe what the other person is really like, I suppose we often picture what we want. We look through the prism of our need. Ellen Goodman
The fundamental problem for Republicans when it comes to the environment is that whatever you say is viewed through the prism of suspicion. Frank Luntz
I could compare my music to white light which contains all colours. Only a prism can divide the colours and make them appear; this prism could be the spirit of the listener. Arvo Pärt
I shall refract myself, yes, I shall no longer be known as the prism. Bruce Dickinson
It's very easy for Australians living in big cities to either romanticise or demonise the situation in Aboriginal places - to kind of look at things through the 'noble innocents' prism or through the 'chronically dysfunctional' prism, and I suspect that is so often the case. Tony Abbott