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

Government

• PRISM, a surveillance program run by the US National Security Agency
• Oregon Performance Reporting Information System, a state agency

Media and entertainment

Publications

• Prism (character), 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

Music

• Prism (band), a Canadian rock band
  • Prism (Prism album), the debut album of the Canadian band
• Prism (Japanese band), 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, an American record label

Other

• 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
• Prism, a character in the episodic videogame Dispatch

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, 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, 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 Live Studio, a video simulcasting program from the South Korean web services company Naver.

See also

• Prismatic (disambiguation)
• Prizm (disambiguation)
• PrSM, short for Precision Strike Missile