‘Terror’, from French terreur, from Latin terror meaning "great fear", a noun derived from the Latin verb terrere meaning "to frighten”
‘Prism’ (optics), a transparent object which refracts light
The above partial definitions are from the Wikipedia online dictionary.
******************************************************************************** Murphy took a full two minutes to come to terms with what had happened as he lay on the floor, covered in dust and bits & pieces of building material and paper; and he could have sworn that he was momentarily deaf at one stage following the world exploding right before him, but now as his senses returned to him he stared at his hands which he lifted to his face and he saw that they were covered in blood, his blood and his hands shook, ‘Get a hold of yourself Murphy!’ he thought as he tried to steady his hands, which proved very difficult. It was then that he heard the screams and the alarms going off all over the place, to which until that period of time he had failed to hear or to even have it register on his mind. The screams were the worst that he had heard in many a year and he could tell by the intensity and length that the persons injured were trapped or worse, impaled on something which he did not want to see, not that he was squeamish, it was just having to look into an injured person’s face and tell them that they were going to live, when in full fact you knew that they were going to die. Murphy tried to sit up but was unable to move and as he tried desperately to move again he heard people running towards him and what remained of the front of the police building and then he blacked out.