triangular prism


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Noun1.triangular prism - a prism whose bases are trianglestriangular prism - a prism whose bases are triangles  
prism - a polyhedron with two congruent and parallel faces (the bases) and whose lateral faces are parallelograms
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Ahead stands the steep-sided triangular prism of Bynack More, studded with substantial granite boulders along its crest.
We are resistant to change in food packaging, attached to our squeezy honey bear, Toblerone's triangular prism, the resealable paperboard tube that houses Pringles's neat stack of hyperbolic paraboloid chips.
The cover of which classic album shows a triangular prism and a rainbow of light?
The set of 16 pieces includes red, yellow, green and blue cylinder, square pyramid, cube, rectangular prism, cone, hexagonal prism, triangular pyramid and triangular prism, and clear plastic casings.
Dining room columns, meanwhile, hold brass-finish up/down dimmable custom triangular prism wall lights, fitted with two 5-W, clear warm white LED lamps.
Shape categories for limestone included cube, triangular prism, and square-based and triangular-based pyramids as shown in Figure 2.
According to these SEM images, we constructed the three-dimensional sphere model, rotated parabolic body model, and straight triangular prism model, respectively, to fit the air area as encircled in Figure 1, as their three-dimensional profiles showed in Figure 2.
The old station was constructed in the form of a triangular prism, however the materials used and unusual design have resulted in the station becoming unfit for purpose in only 30 years.
His most famous design was the iconic sleeve for the 1973 record, which featured a spectrum of light split by a triangular prism His credits also include albums by Led Zeppelin, Peter Gabriel and Muse.
The second artifact is a triangular prism. In optics, a triangular prism is used to disperse visible light into spectrum of seven colors.