optical prism

Questions about optical prism

What is another word for optical prism?

It depends which optical prism you mean. In the sense “optical device having a triangular shape and made of glass or quartz; used to deviate a beam or invert an image”, the synonyms are prism. Across all 1 sense there are 1 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of optical prism?

WordNet records no antonym for optical prism. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for optical prism come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of optical prism

• Full entry for optical prismAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for optical prismWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.