How To Use Prismatic In A Sentence

Besides, the aragonitic shell is made up of two oriented layers: an irregular spherulitic prismatic layer and a fine complex crossed lamellar layer.
Concentrating on defending herself, S'aturinni bought the Major enough time to mumble slightly different syllables, his gemmed gauntlets flashing red this time as a volley of prismatic darts materialised.
In the line rock, this black tourmaline occurs as tiny prismatic crystals.
Dragonflies dip and buzz, their prismatic wings turning the waning sunlight to diamonds.
prismatic light

On a bright polish'd throne, of prismatical [47] spar, Translations of German Poetry in American Magazines 1741-1810
In this same paper, Popov provided a classification of composite prismatic structures that overlaps with but differs from the present one in several respects.
This finely prismatic structure occurs only locally within the marginal denticles, but is better developed locally immediately below the dorsal midline of the shell.
As might perhaps be anticipated from the higher heat of ballistite, its erosive power is slightly greater than that of cordite, while the erosive power of cordite is again slightly greater than that of brown prismatic. Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise
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For the first time, the coordination geometries hexagonal planar and trigonally monocapped trigonal-prismatic are seen.
These vertical volumes and the several prismatic cuts into the building's outer envelope suggest a reading of the dormitory less as a single parallelepiped and more as an array of conjoined towers.
Individually spray-painted in pastel tints of blue, green, purple, pink, orange and yellow, they suggest rays of prismatic light as well as gigantic artificially flavored popsicles.
As in most bivalves, the shell is composed of three layers: the periostracum, the prismatic layer, and the nacre.
Bunsen discussed his work on this problem with Kirchhoff, who pointed the way to a method based on the prismatic resolution of the colors of flames into their separate parts.
Primed by Pissarro in color theory, Cezanne viewed the southern landscape through the prismatic lens of a modern color theorist as well.
Prismatic refraction shows us the spectrum flashing out of a sort of nothing, which suggests a possible return into a single all-containing invisible source.
Have you ever observed a humming-bird moving about in an aerial dance among the flowers — a living prismatic gem that changes its colour with every change of position — how in turning it catches the sunshine on its burnished neck and gorges plumes — green and gold and flame-coloured, the beams changing to visible flakes as they fall, dissolving into nothing, to be succeeded by others and yet others? Green Mansions
You can even choose a prismatic block to deliberately direct light onto a light coloured ceiling where it is softly diffused around the room.
An arc showed in the fog, beyond it a second arc of faint prismatic colors. THE SHIPPING NEWS
The structure also appears to be prismatic in nature.
Zircons extracted from this sample were typically prismatic, red to yellow-whitish in colour and translucent to opaque.
Brown, green, and gray prismatic crystals of diopside to 8 cm in length appear to be somewhat altered.
The mineral separates provided a population of euhedral, prismatic crystals, which are either transparent and colourless or chocolate brown and translucent to opaque.
The so-called "almandine" garnets (those of purplish-red tint) do not equal the true ruby in brightness of color and when held up to the light show more prismatic colors than the true ruby, owing to the greater dispersion of garnet. A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public
Of course the presence of either of these defects is certainly and correctly indicated by the appearance of one or the other of the colors, under certain circumstances; but the simple visibility of prismatic color is by no means a reliable indication of over or under correction of color, and, indeed, to the honor of our opticians, it may be stated that very few objectives are made that cannot justly be called achromatic in the general sense of the term. Scientific American Supplement, No. 561, October 2, 1886
It was filled with ornate stained glass windows, narrow windows of mosaic glass along with displays of other human religious art in prismatic light.
The only bit of flash is in the prismatic foil inlayed into in the title font, which is actually quite subdued when compared to some other sets. Branded in the 80s!
By far the most common causes of prismatic color, in otherwise carefully constructed objectives, are the so-called chromatic aberrations of second or higher order. Scientific American Supplement, No. 561, October 2, 1886
In the Monte Calvario area, the fluoro-edenite mineralization process yielded mainly prismatic, evenly sized acicular crystals.
The prismatic oil-stick scrawls are applied in intricate gathers, loose skeins and impenetrable tangles.
The car enters the prismatic bands and I am bathed in iridescence.
Modern pinnids are morphologically and microstructurally nearly symmetrical, with the same calcitic regular simple prismatic structure comprising a layer of similar thickness in the left and right valves.
Hearing the monitor shatter completely upon the hardwood floor brought some satisfaction, but seeing the tiny, prismatic splinters glittering on the floor, so like my heart at the moment, brought tears to my eyes once more.
The paper erects math model of determined ammomial nitrogen compound uncertainty by prismatic photometer.
We owe the discovery of prismatic spectrum to Isaac Newton.
The crystal of prismatic habit shown in fig. 4 is a combination of the prism m {2-1-1} and the rhombohedron e {110}; fig. 5 is a combination of the scalenohedron v {20-1} and the rhombohedron Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
As the ligamental area overgrows the hinge plate, the dorsal parts of the oldest hinge teeth are resorbed and the hinge sockets are filled up with a fibrous prismatic texture.
SFITs create functionality by incorporating specialty fibers in the textile - optical fiber, for example - as well as substrates, sensors, displays, and prismatic materials, among others.
Remnants of outer calcitic shell layer show a polygonal pattern indicating original presence of columnar prismatic structure; inner aragonitic layers not preserved.
Texture can be an important control here; clay content is important in the creation of blocky, prismatic, and columnar structures.
The standard 1-degree indexing table allows easy access to complex prismatic parts or to drill and tap holes in one setup.
The manipulator has two prismatic joints that are actuated, while the third joint of the manipulator is a revolute passive joint which has neither an actuator nor a holding brake.
Quartz grains are generally unstrained, but prismatic and less common basal subgrains are present, giving a chessboard pattern of subgrains within some grains.
I observ'd likewise, that the shootings of _Ice_ on the top of Water, beginning to freez, were in streight _prismatical_ bodies much like those of _roch-peter_, that they crost each other usually without any kind of order or rule, that they were always a little higher then the surface of the Water that lay between them; that by degrees those _interjacent_ spaces would be fill'd with _Ice_ also, which usually would be as high as the surface of the rest. Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon
Light scatters prismatically in microscopic feather structures to create the kingfisher's brilliant blue.
Hemispherical specimens have been found on the inner surface of a shell which has no living representative -- viz., the Inoceramus (some of which attained a length of two feet) -- and spherical ones of the same prismatical structure occur detached in the chalk. Tropic Days
In Bulatov's painting, lozenges of prismatic hues float out of the deep space of a black ground.
The man was not a fantaisiste or romanticist at all – he did not even try to give us the churning, prismatic ephemera of dreams, but coldly and sardonically reflected some stable, mechanistic, and well – established horror – world which he saw fully, brilliantly, squarely, and unfalteringly. Illustrating The Unseen « Become A Robot
Mr. Lee, I could find in any clodded trifle the outlets of sky my yearning mind covets: hay fever would lead me by prismatic omissions and plunging ellipses of thought to the vaster spirals and eddies of all-viewing Mind. Shandygaff
The remaining 5-10% of zircon grains are rhombic, prismatic or long-prismatic euhedral crystals, and are always transparent and colourless to pale pink.
But when the sun shone through them, prismatic lights were bouncing across the room.
At the point of complete crumblement, or CC as we call it in our organisational jargon, the agent on duty will stash their opera glasses or prismatic viewfinder in a pippy bag, fold up the deckchair or camping stool, and return to the satellite bureau via funicular railway. Hooting Yard
The town, climbing the hill, assumed the proportions of a mighty citadel; the forest tree-tops were prismatic, emerald balls flung beneath the illumined Merveille; and the Cathedral was set in a daffodil frame; its aerial _escalier de dentelle_, like Jacob's ladder, led one easily heavenward. In and out of Three Normady Inns
The cleavage planes between prismatic stibnite crystals have been infilled by sphalerite.
The color of the concrete in the photograph of the Unity Temple is transformed by the reflective and prismatic tinting effects of light and colored shadows interacting with the surface.
It did not separate under the axe into misshapen pieces, with faces of every possible variation from regularity, that is, with what is called vitreous fracture, but rather separated into a number of nuts of limpid ice, each being of a prismatic form, and of much regularity in shape and size. Ice-Caves of France and Switzerland
Narsarsukite is another tetragonal mineral that can show a tetragonal prismatic habit, particularly when it develops in open cavities.
This siliceous substance, viewed in one direction, or longitudinally, may be considered as columnar, prismatical, or continued in lines running nearly parallel. Theory of the Earth~ Part 2 (historical)
Here the background pulses with a prismatic aura incorporating a rainbow of Russell's favorite tints while emphasizing the hues - orchid, violet, and plum - of his signature purple.
The change in colour from cream-coloured to amber, and the change in shape from a prolate spheroid to an indented, prismatic solid, is typical for corn pollen during drying.
It is therefore possible to measure the form and dimension of prismatic and cylindrical parts.
We owe the discovery of prismatic spectrum to Isaac Newton.
The typical three-dimensional structure generally has a prismatic or subprismatic shape that expands in size toward the top.
So resourceful is his prismatic pianism that no line is denied its fully fluid dynamic status, assuaging each as he does with a thousand shades of affect.
It's a beveled, prismatic acrylic formed into a twist.
You can even choose a prismatic block to deliberately direct light onto a light coloured ceiling where it is softly diffused around the room.
Most striking is a work with tiny rainbow streaks at the top edge near the center, like a prismatic reflection, while almost all of the rest is black.
What Monet did was to encourage a new type of audacity and a brand-new type in truth, when no one had up to then attempted to see nature as prismatical under the direct influence of the solar rays. Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets
Fig. 7 shows a prismatic crystal (like fig. 4) twinned in this manner, and fig. 8 represents a twinned scalenohedron v Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
Fine specimens from this locality consist of lustrous lamellae to 3 cm long, prismatic crystals, and penetration twins producing arborescent or dendritic forms.
Reticulated, generally triangular-appearing twinned intergrowths of slender prismatic crystals are typically referred to as ‘sagenite.’
Deviations being proportionate to abscissae, and measured solar energies to ordinates, we have here (1) the distribution of energy in the prismatic, and (2) its distribution in the normal spectrum. Scientific American Supplement, No. 363, December 16, 1882
In better preserved specimens the layer shows a prismatic structure.
In Embrace, a small but potent piece at the San Francisco Art Institute, a mask dissolves into a prismatic starburst in tones of blue streaked with red.
Today I learned that topaz is a mineral, the fluosilicate of aluminum, usually occurring in prismatic orthorhombic crystals of various colors. The Memory Palace
The prismatic impression on paper spread with the chloride of silver is often very beautifully tinted, the intensity of color varying with the kind of muriate used. History and Practice of the Art of Photography
‘Good morning,’ I whispered to myself as the first rays of run in far too long crept through the curtains and cast prismatic rainbows along the opposite wall.
The man was not a fantaisiste or romanticist at all – he did not even try to give us the churning, prismatic ephemera of dreams, but coldly and sardonically reflected some stable, mechanistic, and well – established horror – world which he saw fully, brilliantly, squarely, and unfalteringly. Illustrating The Unseen « Become A Robot
It was mostly white, with just a gimmer of the prismatic colors of a conventional rainbow, but it was impressive. Archive 2004-03-07
In this variation on the prismatic decomposition of light, the ghostly colors retain a precise hue; most are directly taken from pastel color-books.
The optical and prismatic movement of light remained a starting point for these works, but the end result shows a geometric clarity and a fine honing of colour relations.
The final, hallucinogenic images result from the play of light on the prismatic surfaces.
There is a zone nearly half of which consists of granular aggregates of trona and natron with numerous inclusions of pale pink prismatic crystals of shomiokite- reaching 15 cm long and 8 cm in diameter.
Scolecite is monoclinic and typically occurs as slender prismatic crystals with a squarish cross section.
The spirit has its own prismatic palette, which lies beyond the confines of the conventional, yet breathtaking colour curves of my Rotterdam stained-glass skyscape.
The trophoblast is made up of an internal layer of cubical or prismatic cells, the cytotrophoblast or layer of Langhans, and an external layer of richly nucleated protoplasm devoid of cell boundaries, the syncytiotrophoblast. I. Embryology. 11. Development of the Fetal Membranes and Placenta
It is only a matter of time before Guerlain or Dior perceive this as well, and a new perfume, ‘Manhattan’ perhaps, will be marketed in an equally handsome elongated prismatic bottle.
When the light goes out, the glass reveals the outside world, transforming the light of a street lamp into a prismatic rainbow on the wall.
The prismatic resolution of sunlight into its spectral colors.
The triangular prismatic columns of the new colonnade restate this quality in geometry that invokes the cathedral's name.
It was a simple silver band, but it sparkled every prismatic color imaginable.
Fixed horizontal prismatic louvres above the oriels shade the windows from the sun.
Consisting of a flat-topped prismatic structure supported by a braced tube that encloses walls almost totally of glass, 21 Century Tower is a brilliant exercise in minimalism.
They suggested that this species is similar in microstructure to modern unionid bivalves, which are externally prismatic and internally nacreous.
Winifred's later works explore prismatic colour effects; she also painted landscapes and flower pictures (Glimpse upon Waking, 1976; London, Tate) where luminous colour creates space and form.
‘Aye, sir,’ replied the Spector as the Wight Symbiot in the left lens of his golden spectacles shimmered a prismatic blue.
It, however, seems necessary to carry out further research into adaptation to prismatic distortion in order to isolate the exact cause.
Macfarlane's opening gambit - a clutch of mock-Masonic mystery doors, prismatic shapes and curious cones and rhomboids, is like the start of some kind of spiritual whodunnit.
It comprises two 50-foot prismatic structures, clad in glass block, facing each other across a black granite plaza.
Hemispherical specimens have been found on the inner surface of a shell which has no living representative — viz., the Inoceramus (some of which attained a length of two feet) — and spherical ones of the same prismatical structure occur detached in the chalk. Tropic Days
They have a porphyritic texture with prismatic plagioclase phenocrystals, small, aciculate plagioclase crystals and a partially devitrified, near-opaque matrix.
Kerber noted that the pegma-like structure in Watsonella consisted of the prismatic outer shell layer, and he maintained, on this basis, that it was not a true pegma.
On transverse section the horizontal portion exhibits a prismatic, the curved portion a semicylindrical form. VII. The Veins. 3b. 5. The Sinuses of the Dura Mater
The cardiid microstructures which Popov called ‘simple prismatic’ are presently termed fibrous prismatic or composite fibrous prismatic.
The luminaires have a translucent prismatic glass diffuser, in three sizes, internally coloured in white, yellow, blue or grey.
In Apotocardium, a structurally similar, finely prismatic outer shell layer predominates posteriorly in the rostral and carinal areas where the porcelaneous middle shell layer is relatively reduced.
The highly thickened bone with characteristic prismatic internal structure accompanied by the distinctive ornamentation diagnostic of this group allows for an unequivocal identification to the subfamily level.
Sillimanite, which occurs both as fibrolite and as prismatic grains, grows across the L-S fabric in part defined by biotite, and is clearly post-kinematic with respect to the type - 1 tectonites.
In deep sleep, consciousness reverts to its pure condition -- the individual self becomes the All-Self: the rainbow, no longer prismatic by reason of its refraction in materiality, becomes the pure white light; the melody of life resolves itself into the primordial harmony; sequence becomes simultaneity, and Time, no longer "besprent with seven-hued circumstance," is swallowed up in duration. Four-Dimensional Vistas
The trophoblast is made up of an internal layer of cubical or prismatic cells, the cytotrophoblast or layer of Langhans, and an external layer of richly nucleated protoplasm devoid of cell boundaries, the syncytiotrophoblast. I. Embryology. 11. Development of the Fetal Membranes and Placenta
Most have the typical prismatic hexagonal shape, but some crystals are extremely flattened; others display steep, pyramidal tapering toward the termination.

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