Sentence examples for prism up from inspiring English sources

Sir Isaac Newton demonstrated in 1666 that light is the source of colour when he held a glass prism up to a beam of sunlight, producing the rainbow hues of the visible spectrum.

With light classics, the comedy is built in, but a great movie holds a prism up to its lightness and finds historical depth, as Jean Renoir's "Rules of the Game" does with Saint-Saëns's "Danse Macabre" and Charlie Chaplin's "The Great Dictator" does with Brahms's Hungarian Dance No. 5.

A small pool of mercury and a refracting prism make up the other principal parts of the instrument.

Pre-exhumation burial depths in the two paleo-accretionary prisms were up to 9,000 m and about 1,000 m for the Shimanto and the Boso samples, respectively.

It is, in short, a lens format based on the four thirds system that does not, in most cases, use the same mirror or prism set-up found in most DSLRs.

While the anger is broad and growing across Europe, it is particularly intense in Germany which, according to Snowden's revelations, is by far the main target within the EU of the NSA's Prism programme sweeping up metadata en masse, capturing and storing it.

Elsewhere in the FCO, staff are getting a greater say in their technology – the board in change of determining the shape of the department's ERP system, Prism, is headed up by the department's chief operating officer and has "serious engagement" from its senior management.

The other minor issue is that the prism only points up, which means you're stuck with shooting portrait-orientation photographs.

The Prism also links up with nearby headsets for multiplayer gaming, and Stern placed a small circular tracking marker mat on the table that serves as a maze for the Pac-Man-like game play.

The Guardian says it has obtained documents showing that the secret listening post had access to the Prism system, set up by America's National Security Agency NSAA), since at least June 2010.

The Guardian says it has obtained documents showing that Britain's secret listening post had access to the Prism system, set up by America's National Security Agency NSAA), since at least June 2010.