Crossword clues for prismatic
prismatic
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
colorful \colorful\ adj.
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having striking color. Opposite of colorless.
Note: [Narrower terms: changeable, chatoyant, iridescent, shot; deep, rich; flaming; fluorescent, glowing; prismatic; psychedelic; red, ruddy, flushed, empurpled]
Syn: colourful.
striking in variety and interest. Opposite of colorless or dull. [Narrower terms: brave, fine, gay, glorious; flamboyant, resplendent, unrestrained; flashy, gaudy, jazzy, showy, snazzy, sporty; picturesque]
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having color or a certain color; not black, white or grey; as, colored crepe paper. Opposite of colorless and monochrome.
Note: [Narrower terms: tinted; touched, tinged; amber, brownish-yellow, yellow-brown; amethyst; auburn, reddish-brown; aureate, gilded, gilt, gold, golden; azure, cerulean, sky-blue, bright blue; bicolor, bicolour, bicolored, bicoloured, bichrome; blue, bluish, light-blue, dark-blue; blushful, blush-colored, rosy; bottle-green; bronze, bronzy; brown, brownish, dark-brown; buff; canary, canary-yellow; caramel, caramel brown; carnation; chartreuse; chestnut; dun; earth-colored, earthlike; fuscous; green, greenish, light-green, dark-green; jade, jade-green; khaki; lavender, lilac; mauve; moss green, mosstone; motley, multicolor, culticolour, multicolored, multicoloured, painted, particolored, particoloured, piebald, pied, varicolored, varicoloured; mousy, mouse-colored; ocher, ochre; olive-brown; olive-drab; olive; orange, orangish; peacock-blue; pink, pinkish; purple, violet, purplish; red, blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry, cherry-red, crimson, ruby, ruby-red, scarlet; red, reddish; rose, roseate; rose-red; rust, rusty, rust-colored; snuff, snuff-brown, snuff-color, snuff-colour, snuff-colored, snuff-coloured, mummy-brown, chukker-brown; sorrel, brownish-orange; stone, stone-gray; straw-color, straw-colored, straw-coloured; tan; tangerine; tawny; ultramarine; umber; vermilion, vermillion, cinibar, Chinese-red; yellow, yellowish; yellow-green; avocado; bay; beige; blae bluish-black or gray-blue); coral; creamy; cress green, cresson, watercress; hazel; honey, honey-colored; hued(postnominal); magenta; maroon; pea-green; russet; sage, sage-green; sea-green] [Also See: chromatic, colored, dark, light.]
Syn: colored, coloured, in color(predicate).
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. 1 Of or pertaining to a prism; having the form of a prism; containing one or more prisms. 2 Separated or distributed by, or as if by, a transparent prism; formed by a prism; varied or brilliant in color. alt. 1 Of or pertaining to a prism; having the form of a prism; containing one or more prisms. 2 Separated or distributed by, or as if by, a transparent prism; formed by a prism; varied or brilliant in color.
WordNet
adj. of or relating to or resembling or constituting a prism; "prismatic form"
exhibiting spectral colors formed by refraction of light through a prism; "prismatic light"
Wikipedia
Prismatic describes the properties of an optical prism.
Prismatic may also refer to:
- Prismatic (app), a social news curation and discovery app
- Prismatic joint, a joint that provides a linear sliding movement between two bodies
- The Prismatic World Tour, concert tour by singer Katy Perry
Prismatic was a social news curation and discovery application for various Web browsers and mobile devices running iOS. It combined machine learning, user experience design, and interaction design to create a new way to discover, consume, and share media. Prismatic software used social network aggregation and machine learning algorithms to filter the content that aligns with the interests of a specific user. Prismatic integrates with Facebook, Twitter, and Pocket to gather information about user's interests and suggest the most relevant stories to read.
Prismatic initially launched in 2012 for Web browsers and the iPhone, followed by the release of an iPad app on December 19, 2013.
On December 20, 2015 the company closed its consumer-facing apps and focuses on offering its machine learning algorithms to publishers and hedge funds.
Prismatic is produced by Prismatic, Inc., a United-States-based software company founded in 2010 by Bradford Cross and Aria Haghighi and headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Usage examples of "prismatic".
And just as the bow that spans the mantling cloud reminds us of all beautiful things that glow around its antitype that spans the emerald throne on high, so, as we gaze upon the prismatic tints that are reflected from the oily surface, we dream of all that is beautiful in color and gorgeous in tinted radiance, as being hidden amid the elements of petroleum.
The vibrant light from the multihued ceiling above them caught in the crystal prismatic refractors, sending spinning flashes of color dancing wildly around the room, resolving as it slowed into a gleaming, pulsing arc of red light which came to rest on the floor where Omet lay.
As they touched, it sparkled, flamed, wavered, and shook with fountains of prismatic colour.
The radiance spouted beyond the protective field and into the night sky, where it diffused into a wavery mantle of prismatic light that extended as far as the eye could see.
Arithon was dealt forced review of smashed dreams, the prismatic linkage of cause and effect replayed to the least stinging nuance.
Turbolaser blasts became swift shafts of light that shattered into prismatic splinters against shields, or bloomed into miniature supernovae that swallowed ships whole.
His method is to use pure prismatic colors on the principle that color is light in a decomposed form, and that its proper juxtaposition on canvas will recompose into pure light again.
She checked the ratio of the influx of nanoparticles across the series of prismatic grids.
I made in former years such a research with regard to tuning forks of prismatic form, that is to say, of a constant rectangular section continuing even into the bent portion where the parallel branches are united by a semicylinder, at the middle of which is the wrought iron rod as well as the branches.
He peeled away the last opaque shrink wrapping to display his purchase: a foot-high solido of a lovely young woman, every feature sharply delineated in the fragile prismatic carving.
It was alive with swirling color, an intermingling of writhing, prismatic flames and subtle and everchanging shades of darkness, an eddying opalescence that seemed always about to coalesce into a picture, yet never did.
Slug impacts pounded prismatic dents across the transparis-teel windscreen.
Now I could see clearly that nucleus, that core shot through with flashing veins of radiance, that ever-shifting shape of glory through the shroudings of shimmering, misty plumes, throbbing lacy opalescences, vaporous spirallings of prismatic phantom fires.
With a last exquisite burst of chimings, they coalesced into a small cloud and soared away, glittering, flashing, with prismatic splendor in the sunlight.
He peeled away the last opaque shrinkwrapping to display his purchase: a foot-high solido of a lovely young woman, every feature sharply delineated in the fragile prismatic carving.