optical prism

Questions about optical prism

What does optical prism mean?

optical prism means "optical device having a triangular shape and made of glass or quartz; used to deviate a beam or invert an image".

What is another word for optical prism?

Close synonyms include prism. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is optical prism a common word?

optical prism is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.