Prism usually refers to: *

Prism (optics) An optical prism is a transparent optics, optical element with flat, polished surfaces that are designed to refraction, refract light. At least one surface must be angled — elements with two parallel surfaces are ''not'' prisms. The most fami ...

, a transparent optical component with flat surfaces that refract light *

Prism (geometry) In geometry, a prism is a polyhedron comprising an polygon Base (geometry), base, a second base which is a Translation (geometry), translated copy (rigidly moved without rotation) of the first, and other Face (geometry), faces, necessarily all ...

, a kind of polyhedron Prism may also refer to:

Science and mathematics

Prism (geology) In sedimentology, a prism is a long, narrow, wedge-shaped sedimentary body. These types of sediments are typically formed during orogenic deformation; for example, the arkose detrital sedimentary rock found in fault troughs. In mineralogy, pri ...

, a type of sedimentary deposit * Prism correction, a component of some eyeglass prescriptions

Government

* PRISM, a surveillance program run by the US National Security Agency *

PRISM (website) Portal Resources for Indiana Science and Mathematics (PRISM) is a free website originally designed for Indiana middle school math, science, and technology teachers. It links Indiana Academic Standards for middle school science, technology, pre-eng ...

, an educational portal website for Indiana teachers * Oregon Performance Reporting Information System, a state agency

Media and entertainment

Publications

* Prism (comics), a Marvel Comics character * '' Prism International'', a Canadian literary magazine * ''PRism'' (journal), an academic journal covering public relations * ''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

Music

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 Prism Leisure Corporation Plc was a distribution and publishing company that primarily focused on reissues and compilations, often at low prices. The company was located in Enfield, Middlesex, United Kingdom, History The company was founded in ...

, a distribution and publishing company in the United Kingdom

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 Micro Products, a British telecommunications company that produced modems for the Micronet 800 network * 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