Object depicted on the cover of Pink Floyd's "The Dark Side of the Moon"

Usage examples of prism.

Rapid rotation can be detected astronomically by spectroscopy, letting light from a distant object pass consecutively through a telescope, a narrow slit and a glass prism or other device which spreads white light out into a rainbow of colors.

To a sailor like de la Mery it was obvious just by his carriage, an air of easy authority that permeated the prisms of his glass, that he was the captain.

At the outer edges were the periscopes for the flash and rotating prism cameras that would record every microsecond of a blast.

He moved the prism into a shaft of sunlight coming through a small, paneless window and shining on the desk.

Black, white, or gray cockatoos, paroquets, with plumage of all colors, kingfishers of a sparkling green and crowned with red, blue lories, and various other birds appeared on all sides, as through a prism, fluttering about and producing a deafening clamor.

Shimmering slivers of prismed sunlight randomly found their way to earth as the breeze shifted the great branches overhead.

It was a synergistic fact that the strength of any focus link diminished swiftly with even a few feet of distance between talent and prism.

We lay like that, her stretched out on top of me, kissing gently, sweetly, passing the saltiness back and forth, suspended as in a hanging prism, but even as our mouths lay upon each other just as gently, even as our tongues dance about each other just as sweetly, like waltzers floating arm in arm across a wooden floor, even as we try to hold on to the moment our bodies are picking up the tempo, her hands pressing into my side, my grip on the thick muscles of her thigh, her foot, toes splayed, pressing down on my own, my knee, her knee, my teeth, her hip.

As from a thousand prisms and mirrors, fills The Universe with glorious beams, and kills Error, the worm, with many a sun-like arrow Of its reverberated lightning.

I have recently confirmed two very successful matches involving full-spectrum prisms and very high-class talents.

The blast-pit where Nobu had held off the orts jangled with the lunatic colors of prisming superlight.

This is by the beautiful method of rock-crystal prisms, not the Rochon method of double-image, but by thin wedges cut to given angles.

As the five cadets walked down a nearby corridor, Kathryn was amazed how the walls seemed to shift in a prism effect as light struck the crystals.

Myriads of bright yellow little birds were perched on the girders, or flitting through the prisms of light admitted by the bizarre windows, by the great triangles of glass that pierced the crown.

He carefully tapped out onto his palm two tiny granules that glittered like prisms.