luminescence
/ˌluːmɪˈnɛs(ə)ns
/noun [mass noun]
The emission of light by a substance that has not been heated, as in fluorescence and phosphorescence: honey fungus produces a ghostly greenish luminescence...
- This property also leads to the intense luminescence and electron transfer capability of porphyrins and many metalloporphyins.
- He studied seawater luminescence and ocean temperatures while charting the path of the Gulf Stream.
- Not electrical, but green luminescence; a glowing paint that had been painted along every shelf and spare inch of wall or floor.
Derivatives
luminescent
/ adjective ...- Fluorescence and phosphorescence are two similar luminescent phenomena.
- A person could place his hand in an x-ray beam before a luminescent screen and view his own bones through a hooded visor.
- The basis for this power is the development of stable and sensitive analysis devices and fluorescent and luminescent probes.
Origin
Late 19th century: from Latin lumen, lumin- 'light' + -escence (denoting a state).
Rhymes
- reformity
- Reform Jew
- Reform Judaism
- Reform-Neutral
- reform parliament
- reform party
- reform school
- reformulate
- reformulation
- refortification
- refortify
- refortifying
- refoulement
- refound
- unfailing
- unfailingly
- unfailingness
- unfair
- unfairly
- unfairness
- unfaithful
- unfaithfully
- unfaithfulness
- unfaltering
- unfalteringly