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Grism vs Grisy - What's the difference?

grism | grisy |

As a noun grism

is a combination of diffraction grating and prism used to obtain spectra from different parts of an.

As an adjective grisy is

grim, grisly.

grism

English

Noun

(wikipedia grism) (en noun)
  • A combination of diffraction grating and prism used to obtain spectra from different parts of an image

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    grisy

    English

    Etymology 1

    From .

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Grim, grisly.
  • * , II.xi:
    • And that fourth band, which cruell battry bent, / Against the fourth Bulwarke, that is the Tast , / Was as the rest, a grysie rablement [...].

    Etymology 2

    From .

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Grey; grizzled.
  • *1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.1:
  • *:So earely, ere the grosse Earthes gryesy shade / Was all disperst out of the firmament, / They tooke their steeds, and forth upon their journey went.