prismatic

4 definitions found

prismatic - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Prismatic \Pris*mat"ic\, Prismatical \Pris*mat"ic*al\, a. [Cf.
     F. prismatique.]
     1. Resembling, or pertaining to, a prism; as, a prismatic
        form or cleavage.
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     2. Separated or distributed by a prism; formed by a prism;
        as, prismatic colors.
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     3. (Crystallog.) Same as Orthorhombic.
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     Prismatic borax (Chem.), borax crystallized in the form of
        oblique prisms, with ten molecules of water; --
        distinguished from octahedral borax.
  
     Prismatic colors (Opt.), the seven colors into which light
        is resolved when passed through a prism; primary colors.
        See Primary colors, under Color.
  
     Prismatic compass (Surv.), a compass having a prism for
        viewing a distant object and the compass card at the same
        time.
  
     Prismatic spectrum (Opt.), the spectrum produced by the
        passage of light through a prism.
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  colorful \colorful\ adj.
     1. having striking color. Opposite of colorless.
  
     Note: [Narrower terms: changeable, chatoyant, iridescent, shot
           ; deep, rich; flaming; fluorescent, glowing;
           prismatic; psychedelic; red, ruddy, flushed, empurpled
           ]
  
     Syn: colourful.
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     2. striking in variety and interest. Opposite of colorless
        or dull. [Narrower terms: brave, fine, gay, glorious;
        flamboyant, resplendent, unrestrained; flashy, gaudy,  jazzy, showy, snazzy, sporty
        ; picturesque]
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     3. having color or a certain color; not black, white or grey;
        as, colored crepe paper. Opposite of colorless and
        monochrome.
  
     Note: [Narrower terms: tinted; touched, tinged; amber, brownish-yellow, yellow-brown
           ; amethyst; auburn, reddish-brown
           ; aureate, gilded, gilt, gold, golden;
           azure, cerulean, sky-blue, bright blue; bicolor, bicolour, bicolored, bicoloured, bichrome
           ; blue, bluish, light-blue, dark-blue
           ; blushful, blush-colored, rosy
           ; bottle-green; bronze, bronzy;
           brown, brownish, dark-brown; buff; canary, canary-yellow
           ; caramel, caramel brown; carnation;
           chartreuse; chestnut; dun; earth-colored, earthlike
           ; fuscous; green, greenish, light-green, dark-green
           ; jade, jade-green; khaki; lavender, lilac
           ; mauve; moss green, mosstone; motley, multicolor, culticolour, multicolored, multicoloured, painted, particolored, particoloured, piebald, pied, varicolored, varicoloured
                               ; mousy, mouse-colored;
           ocher, ochre; olive-brown; olive-drab; olive;
           orange, orangish; peacock-blue; pink, pinkish;
           purple, violet, purplish; red, blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry, cherry-red, crimson, ruby, ruby-red, scarlet
                     ; red, reddish; rose, roseate; rose-red;
           rust, rusty, rust-colored; snuff, snuff-brown, snuff-color, snuff-colour, snuff-colored, snuff-coloured, mummy-brown, chukker-brown
                     ; sorrel, brownish-orange
           ; stone, stone-gray; straw-color, straw-colored, straw-coloured
           ; tan; tangerine;
           tawny; ultramarine; umber; vermilion, vermillion, cinibar, Chinese-red
           ; yellow, yellowish;
           yellow-green; avocado; bay; beige; blae bluish-black or gray-blue)
           ; coral; creamy; cress green, cresson, watercress
           ; hazel; honey, honey-colored
           ; hued(postnominal); magenta;
           maroon; pea-green; russet; sage, sage-green;
           sea-green] [Also See: chromatic, colored, dark,
           light.]
  
     Syn: colored, coloured, in color(predicate).
          [WordNet 1.5]

prismatic - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  prismatic
      adj 1: of or relating to or resembling or constituting a prism;
             "prismatic form"
      2: exhibiting spectral colors formed by refraction of light
         through a prism; "prismatic light"

prismatic - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  59 Moby Thesaurus words for "prismatic":
     bicolor, bicolored, chromatic, cold, colorful, colorific, coloring,
     colory, cool, crazy, daedal, dichromatic, divers-colored, glowing,
     harlequin, harmonious, kaleidoscopic, many-colored, matching,
     medley, monochromatic, monochrome, monochromic, motley,
     multiangular, multicolor, multicolored, multicolorous,
     multilateral, parti-color, parti-colored, pigmentary,
     polychromatic, polychrome, polychromic, polygonal, polyhedral,
     prismal, prismoid, pyramidal, pyramidic, rainbow, shot,
     shot through, spectral, thunder and lightning, tinctorial, tingent,
     toning, trichromatic, trichromic, tricolor, tricolored, two-tone,
     varicolored, variegated, versicolor, versicolored, warm