145 examples of prisms in sentences

Life, mundane life, is as a dome of glass, which becomes many-coloured by its prismatic diffraction of the white light: its various prisms reflect eternity at different angles.

His development has been quite extensive: he knows, not always by name, but by their characteristics, vertical, horizontal, slanting, and curved lines; squares, oblongs; equal sided, blunt and sharp angled triangles; five, six, seven and eight sided figures; spheres, cylinders, cubes, and prisms.

It swims, and the plates become paddles, propelling the frail craft, prisms, dividing the sunbeams into rainbow hues.

There was astigmatism of the prisms; and false light reflected from the base of the prisms, causing loss both of light and of definition.

There was astigmatism of the prisms; and false light reflected from the base of the prisms, causing loss both of light and of definition.

A large Direct-vision Spectroscope has been quite recently made by Mr Hilger under Mr Christie's direction on a new plan, in which either great dispersion or great purity of spectrum is obtained by the use of 'Half-prisms,' according as the incident pencil falls first on the perpendicular or on the oblique face.

In this Spectroscope either one or two half prisms can be used at pleasure, according to the dispersion required, and there is facility for increasing the train to three or four half-prisms, though the dispersion with two only is nearly double of that given by the large ten-prism Spectroscope.

In this Spectroscope either one or two half prisms can be used at pleasure, according to the dispersion required, and there is facility for increasing the train to three or four half-prisms, though the dispersion with two only is nearly double of that given by the large ten-prism Spectroscope.

No more taking up of dull earths, and turning them, first into clear solutions, and then into lustrous prisms!

The dial-sight was a complicated affair of prisms and lenses which probably cost the Bosch about sixty pounds, and we felt a little sick at having overlooked such a find.

Four 15° prisms have been constructed, the three largest having clear apertures of nearly eleven inches, and the fourth being somewhat smaller.

The entire weight of these prisms exceeds a hundred pounds, and they fill a brass cubical box a foot on each side.

Dust on the prisms seemed to be the explanation of this difficulty.

The usual smile of ecstatic admiration spread over Jules's features as he touched the match to the simulated wicks, and lighted into life the rainbows in the prisms underneath.

A passing vehicle in the street, however, now and then drew a shiver of sound from the pendent prisms of the chandelier.

Let us sit here in the corridor and count the prisms in the chandeliers.

Snow, which, in its crystallization, surpasses the most perfect gems, is invariably found arranged in determinate angles, to wit, 60°, and its double, 120°, and formed of six-sided prisms.

All pack tight, and mould their surfaces against each other, so that in the long run there is a wonderful average uniformity in the forms of both thoughts and actions,just as you find that cylinders crowded all become hexagonal prisms, and spheres pressed together are formed into regular polyhedra.

The former pass through the prisms, P{1}P{2}, and are focused to form a spectrum by a lens, L{3}, on D, a movable ground glass screen.

Light which enters the collimating lens partly passes through the prisms and is partly reflected from the first surface of the prism; that we utilize, thus giving a second shadow.

By preparing prisms of different varieties of tabasheer, Brewster proceeded to determine its refractive index, arriving at the remarkable result that tabasheer "has a lower index of refraction than any other known solid or liquid, and that it actually holds an intermediate place between water and gaseous bodies!"

Prisms of English flashed with terrible attraction.

R80034, 26Jun51, Henry M. Snyder (A) SOUTHALL, JAMES P. C. Mirrors, prisms, and lenses.

Against the door, an octave of tubular chimes, prisms of voiceless harmony and of heatless light.

In the manufacture of saltpetre, the earths, whether naturally or artificially impregnated, are mixed with the ashes from burnt wood, or salts of potash, so that this base may take the place of all others, and produce long prisms of potash saltpetre.

145 examples of  prisms  in sentences