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