Prism usually refers to: *

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

, 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), a type of sedimentary deposit * Prism (surveying), a type of target * Prism correction, a component of some eyeglass prescriptions

Government

PRISM PRISM is a code name for a program under which the United States National Security Agency (NSA) collects internet communications from various U.S. internet companies. The program is also known by the SIGAD . PRISM collects stored internet ...

, a surveillance program run by the US National Security Agency * 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: The Journal of Complex Operations'', published by the

National Defense University National Defence (or Defense) University (or College) may refer to: :''Alphabetical by country'' University * Marshal Fahim National Defense University, Afghanistan * National Defense University (Azerbaijan) * People's Liberation Army National Defe ...

* ''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 Troy Denning is an American fantasy and science fiction author and game designer who has written more than two dozen novels. Background Denning grew up in the mountain town of Idaho Springs, Colorado. An avid reader of science fiction and fan ...

*''Prism'', a monthly on the post-Soviet states by the

Jamestown Foundation The Jamestown Foundation is a Washington, D.C.–based non-partisan defense policy think tank. Founded in 1984 as a platform to support Soviet defectors, its stated mission is to inform and educate policy makers about events and trends, which ...

Music

Prism (band) Prism (styled as PRiSM) is a Canadian Rock music, 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, g ...

, 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 and Ken Watanabe. In 1976, the group were signed to Polydor Records and toured nationwide. Prism released their debut album in 1977, ''Prism'', w ...

, 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'' (Matthew Shipp album) * ''Prism'' (Ryo Kawasaki album) * ''Prism'' (The Orb album) * ''Prism'' (Yoshida Brothers album) * ''Prism'' (Rainbow EP) * "Prism", a song from Lindsey Stirling's 2016 album '' Brave Enough'' *

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 dis ...

, 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, 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 Microproducts, a British IT company that produced modems for the Micronet 800 service * PR/SM, 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, 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 A retroreflector (sometimes called a retroflector or cataphote) is a device or surface that reflects light or other radiation back to its source with minimum scattering. This works at a wide range of angle of incidence (optics), angle of incidenc ...

, 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 * PRISM+, a consumer electronics brand in Asia