Prism
Wikimedia disambiguation page
Prism usually refers to:
Prism (optics), a transparent optical component with flat surfaces that refract light
Prism (geometry), a kind of polyhedron
Prism may also refer to:
Science and mathematics
Prism (geology), a type of sedimentary deposit
Prism (surveying), a type of target
Prism correction, a component of some eyeglass prescriptions
Government
PRISM, a surveillance program run by the US National Security Agency
Oregon Performance Reporting Information System, a state agency
Media and entertainment
Publications
Prism (character), a Marvel Comics character
Prism International, a Canadian literary magazine
PRISM: The Journal of Complex Operations, published by the National Defense University
ASEE Prism, the flagship publication of the American Society for Engineering Education
Prism Comics, an organization that supports LGBT people in the comics industry
The Prism Pentad, a series of Dungeons & Dragons novels by Troy Denning
Prism, a monthly on the post-Soviet states by the Jamestown Foundation
Music
Prism (band), a Canadian rock band
Prism (Prism album), the debut album of the Canadian band
Prism (Japanese band), a jazz fusion band
Prism (Beth Nielsen Chapman album)
Prism (Dave Holland album)
Prism (Jeff Scott Soto album)
Prism (Joanne Brackeen album)
Prism (Katy Perry album)
Prism (Matthew Shipp album)
Prism (Ryo Kawasaki album)
Prism (The Orb album)
Prism (Yoshida Brothers album)
Prism (Rainbow EP)
"Prism", a song from Lindsey Stirling's 2016 album Brave Enough
Prism Records, an American record label
Other
Prism (play), a 2017 play by Terry Johnson
Prism (opera), a 2018 opera by Ellen Reid
PRISM (TV network), a defunct cable television channel in Philadelphia, United States
Prism (street artist), street artist from Melbourne, Australia
Prism Leisure Corporation, a distribution and publishing company in the United Kingdom
Prism, a character in the episodic videogame Dispatch
Computing
Publishing Requirements for Industry Standard Metadata, XML metadata vocabularies for syndicating, aggregating, post-processing and multi-purposing content
Hardware
Prism (chipset), a wireless networking chipset
Apollo PRISM, a microprocessor made by Apollo Computer
DEC PRISM, a cancelled processor architecture designed by Digital Equipment Corporation
SGI Prism, a computer
Prism Microproducts, a British IT company that produced modems for the Micronet 800 service
PR/SM, an IBM mainframe hypervisor
Software
Delphi Prism, a software development environment for .NET and Mono
Mozilla Prism, a software product for desktop integration of web applications
PRISM model checker, a probabilistic model checker
GraphPad Prism, software for scientific graphing, biostatistics and curve fitting
Other uses
PRISM (reactor), a small nuclear power plant design
A retroreflector, used in surveying
Prism Rail, a British passenger rail company
Prism Motorsports, a defunct NASCAR team
Nokia Prism, a fashion mobile phone collection
Prism (video game), a video game about manipulating 3D shapes
PRISM Live Studio, a video simulcasting program from the South Korean web services company Naver.
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