Prismatic Definition

prĭz-mătĭk
adjective
Of or resembling a prism.
Webster's New World
That refracts light as a prism.
Webster's New World
Brilliantly colored; iridescent.
American Heritage
That forms or resembles prismatic colors.
Webster's New World
Many-colored; brilliant; dazzling.
Webster's New World

Origin of Prismatic

  • Greek prīsma prīsmat- prism prism –ic

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Prismatic Sentence Examples

  • The crystals of prismatic habit represented in figs.

  • Owing to the sacrifice of form to prismatic brilliance, cut-glass gradually lost its artistic value.

  • When heated in a current of hydrogen it sublimes in the form of brilliant prismatic crystals.

  • Crystals are prismatic, acicular or scaly in habit; they have a perfect cleavage parallel to the brachypinacoid (M in the figure).

  • In the Fucaceae, on the other hand, there is a single prismatic apical cell situated at the bottom of a groove at the growing apex of the thallus, which cuts off cells from its sides to add to the peripheral, and from its base to add to the central permanent cells.

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