"roof prism" meaning in All languages combined

See roof prism on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: roof prisms [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} roof prism (plural roof prisms)
  1. A reflective optical prism containing a section where two faces meet at a 90° angle, resembling the roof of a building. Reflection from the two 90° faces returns an image that is flipped laterally across the axis where the faces meet. Wikipedia link: roof prism
    Sense id: en-roof_prism-en-noun-tcgv-KTE Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for roof prism meaning in All languages combined (1.0kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "roof prisms",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "roof prism (plural roof prisms)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A reflective optical prism containing a section where two faces meet at a 90° angle, resembling the roof of a building. Reflection from the two 90° faces returns an image that is flipped laterally across the axis where the faces meet."
      ],
      "id": "en-roof_prism-en-noun-tcgv-KTE",
      "links": [
        [
          "reflective",
          "reflective"
        ],
        [
          "optical",
          "optical"
        ],
        [
          "prism",
          "prism"
        ],
        [
          "section",
          "section"
        ],
        [
          "face",
          "face"
        ],
        [
          "angle",
          "angle"
        ],
        [
          "image",
          "image"
        ],
        [
          "flip",
          "flip"
        ],
        [
          "laterally",
          "laterally"
        ],
        [
          "axis",
          "axis"
        ]
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "roof prism"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "roof prism"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "roof prisms",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "roof prism (plural roof prisms)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A reflective optical prism containing a section where two faces meet at a 90° angle, resembling the roof of a building. Reflection from the two 90° faces returns an image that is flipped laterally across the axis where the faces meet."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "reflective",
          "reflective"
        ],
        [
          "optical",
          "optical"
        ],
        [
          "prism",
          "prism"
        ],
        [
          "section",
          "section"
        ],
        [
          "face",
          "face"
        ],
        [
          "angle",
          "angle"
        ],
        [
          "image",
          "image"
        ],
        [
          "flip",
          "flip"
        ],
        [
          "laterally",
          "laterally"
        ],
        [
          "axis",
          "axis"
        ]
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "roof prism"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "roof prism"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-10 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (a644e18 and edd475d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.