define the term prism
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a glass or other transparent object in the form of a prism, especially one that is triangular with refracting surfaces at an acute angle with each other and that separates white light into a spectrum of colours.
used to refer to the clarification or distortion afforded by a particular viewpoint.
"they were forced to imagine the disaster through the prism of television"
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a polyhedron with two polygonal faces lying in parallel planes and with the other faces parallelograms
2a: a transparent body that is bounded in part by two nonparallel plane faces and is used to refract or disperse a beam of light
b: a prism-shaped decorative glass luster
3: a crystal form whose faces are parallel to one axisespecially : one whose faces are parallel to the vertical axis
4: a medium that distorts, slants, or colors whatever is viewed through it