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

Prism (band) Prism (styled as PRiSM) is a Canadian rock band formed in Vancouver in 1977. They were originally active from 1977 to 1984 and have been active again from 1987 to present. Their classic line-up consisted of lead singer Ron Tabak, guitarist Li ...

, a Canadian rock band ** ''Prism'' (Prism album), the debut album of the Canadian band *

Prism (Japanese band) was a Japanese jazz fusion band formed in 1975. History Prism was formed in 1975 by Akira Wada, Ken Watanabe, Katsutoshi Morizono, Daisaku Kume, Koki "Corky" Ito and Toru "Rika" Suzuki. Most of the musicians had little professional experien ...

, 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'' (Lindsey Stirling song) * ''Prism'' (Matthew Shipp album) * ''Prism'' (Ryo Kawasaki album) * ''Prism'' (Yoshida Brothers album) * ''Prism'' (Rainbow EP) *

Prism Records Prism Records was an American record label formed in 1978 by Len Fichtelberg (d. November 4, 2010). It was originally an independent label, focusing on the New York City R&B and disco scene of the day with groups like Erotic Drum Band and disc ...

, an American record label

Other

* ''Prism'' (play), a 2017 play by Terry Johnson * ''Prism'' (opera), a 2018 opera by Ellen Reid *

PRISM (TV network) PRISM (Philadelphia Regional In-home Sports and Movies) was an American regional premium cable television channel in the Philadelphia metropolitan area. Launched in September 1976, PRISM was primarily distributed through area cable systems, alth ...

, 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 The Publishing Requirements for Industry Standard Metadata (PRISM) for the Internet, computing, and computer science, is a specification that defines a set of XML metadata vocabularies for syndicating, aggregating, post-processing and multi-purposi ...

, XML metadata vocabularies for syndicating, aggregating, post-processing and multi-purposing content

Hardware

* Prism (chipset), a wireless networking chipset *

Apollo PRISM PRISM (Parallel Reduced Instruction Set Multiprocessor) was Apollo Computer's high-performance CPU used in their DN10000 series workstations. It was for some time the fastest microprocessor available, a high fraction of a Cray-1 in a workstati ...

, a microprocessor made by Apollo Computer *

DEC PRISM PRISM (Parallel Reduced Instruction Set Machine) was a 32-bit RISC instruction set architecture (ISA) developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). It was the outcome of a number of DEC research projects from the 1982–1985 time-frame, and t ...

, a cancelled processor architecture designed by Digital Equipment Corporation *

SGI Prism The Silicon Graphics Prism is a series of visualization computer systems developed and manufactured by Silicon Graphics (SGI). Released in April 2005, the Prism's basic system architecture is based on the Altix 3000 servers, but with graphic ...

, a computer * Prism Micro Products, a British telecommunications company that produced modems for the

Micronet 800 Micronet 800 was an information provider (IP) on Prestel, aimed at the 1980s personal computer market. It was an online magazine that gave subscribers computer related news, reviews, general subject articles and downloadable telesoftware. User ...

network *

PR/SM A logical partition (LPAR) is a subset of a computer's hardware resources, virtualized as a separate computer. In effect, a physical machine can be partitioned into multiple logical partitions, each hosting a separate instance of an operating ...

, an IBM mainframe hypervisor

Software

Delphi Prism Oxygene (formerly known as Chrome) is a programming language developed by RemObjects Software for Microsoft's Common Language Infrastructure, the Java Platform and Cocoa. Oxygene is based on Delphi's Object Pascal, but also has influences from ...

, a software development environment for .NET and Mono *

Mozilla Prism Mozilla Prism (formerly WebRunner) is a discontinued project which integrated web applications with the desktop, allowing web applications to be launched from the desktop and configured independently of the default web browser. As of November 201 ...

, a software product for desktop integration of web applications *

PRISM model checker PRISM is a probabilistic model checker, a formal verification software tool for the modelling and analysis of systems that exhibit probabilistic behaviour.Kwiatkowska, M.; Norman, G.; Parker, D. "Probabilistic model checking in practice: Case studie ...

, a probabilistic model checker *

GraphPad Prism GraphPad Software Inc. was a privately held software development corporation until its acquisition by Insight Partners in 2017. The company was named Insightful Science, which itself merged with Dotmatics in 2021. The original software was writt ...

, software for scientific graphing, biostatistics and curve fitting

Other uses

PRISM (reactor) PRISM (Power Reactor Innovative Small Module, sometimes S-PRISM from SuperPRISM) is a nuclear power plant design by GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH). Design The S-PRISM represents GEH's Generation IV reactor solution to closing the nuclear fu ...

, a small nuclear power plant design * A

retroreflector A retroreflector (sometimes called a retroflector or cataphote) is a device or surface that reflects radiation (usually light) back to its source with minimum scattering. This works at a wide range of angle of incidence, unlike a planar mirror, ...

, used in surveying *

Prism Rail Prism Rail was formed in July 1995 to bid for rail franchises in the United Kingdom during the privatisation of British Rail. It expressed interest in eighteen franchises, was shortlisted for twelve and was ultimately awarded four, LTS Rail, Val ...

, a British passenger rail company *

Prism Motorsports Phil Parsons Racing, formerly named MSRP Motorsports, Prism Motorsports, and later HP Racing, was a NASCAR team that competed in the Sprint Cup Series and Nationwide Series. It was owned by former NASCAR driver Phil Parsons, and most recently fiel ...

, a defunct NASCAR team *

Nokia Prism The Nokia Prism is a fashion mobile phone collection produced by Nokia. All models run S40 5th Edition user interface. As for 2008, the collection includes the four handsets: * Nokia 7070 Prism (low-end phone, released 4Q 2008) * Nokia 7500 Pr ...

, a fashion mobile phone collection * ''Prism'' (video game), a video game about manipulating 3D shapes