Prism Explained

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 (comics), 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

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

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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

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