prismatic

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Grooves are milled recesses in workpieces which may have various geometrical shapes (prismatic, rotationally symmetrical) and sizes.

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  1. adjective Of, relating to, resembling, or being a prism.
  2. adjective Formed by refraction of light through a prism. Used of a spectrum of light.
  3. adjective Brilliantly colored; iridescent.

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  • Grooves are milled recesses in workpieces which may have various geometrical shapes (prismatic, rotationally symmetrical) and sizes. —  4. Milling of grooves
  • The workpiece may have a prismatic or rotationally symmetrical shape. —  3. Preparation of milling grooves, elongated slots and break-throughs
  • Each module is made up of what is known as a prismatic cell —  gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine
  • You can't explain something like evaporation or the prismatic effect that causes a rainbow. —  CNN Transcript Dec 10, 2001
  • You cannot suggest on the piano, with any adequacy of effect, a mountain-side in flames, or the prismatic arch of a rainbow, or the towering architecture of cloud forms; so MacDowell has confined himself within the bounds of such canvases as he paints upon in his “Four Little Poems” (“The Eagle,” “The Brook,” “Moonshine,” “Winter "), in his first orchestral suite, and in the inimitable “Woodland Sketches” and “Sea Pieces.” —  Edward MacDowell
 

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  1. Greek prīsma, prīsmat-, prism; see prism + -ic.

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  1. = French prismatique = Spanish prismático = Portuguese Italian prismatico, from Greek πρίσμα(τ-), a prism: see prism.
 

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/prɪzˈmætɪk/
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