PREDISPOSING FACTORS. A predisposing factor is a condition or situation that may make a person more at risk or susceptible to disease. Some predisposing factors include heredity, age, gender, environment, and lifestyle. Heredity is a predisposing factor when a trait inherited from a parent puts an individual at risk for certain diseases.
PRISM is a clandestine surveillance program under which the United States National Security Agency (NSA) collects internet communications from at least nine major US internet companies. Since 2001 the United States government has increased its scope for such surveillance, and so this program was launched in 2007.
Definition of prism. 1  1 : a polyhedron with two polygonal faces lying in parallel planes and with the other faces parallelograms. 2  2a : a transparent body that is bounded in part by two nonparallel plane faces and is used to refract or disperse a beam of lightb : a prism-shaped decorative glass luster.