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fluorescent, a.|fluːəˈrɛsənt|
[f. fluoresce + -ent.]
a. Possessing the property of fluorescence. Of light: Proceeding from or having the nature of fluorescence.
1853Prof. Stokes in Phil. Trans. 390 In those cases in which the fluorescent light is yellow. 1855Dr. Gladstone Ibid. 211 Other fluorescent Organic Substances. 1883–4Med. Ann. 29/1 Both the acid and the alkaloid having fluorescent properties.
b. fluorescent lamp, a lamp in which light is produced largely by fluorescence; esp. a tubular electric-discharge lamp containing mercury vapour, ultra-violet radiation from which causes the fluorescence of a coating of phosphor on the inside of the tube; also fluorescent light, fluorescent lighting, fluorescent tube; fluorescent screen, an opaque or transparent screen coated on one side with a fluorescent material and used for displaying images produced when it is struck by X-rays, electrons, or other ionizing radiation.
1896T. A. Edison U.S. Pat. 865,367 (1907), Fluorescent Electric Lamp... The object I have in mind is to produce light by fluorescence... *Fluorescent lamps made in accordance with this invention may be operated singly or may be worked together in series. 1938Trans. Illum. Engin. Soc. (London) III. 126/2 The tubluar fluorescent lamp.
1966D. F. Galouye Lost Perception xiv. 147 He regained consciousness in the glare of *fluorescent lights strung along an acoustical tile ceiling. 1971Nature 1 Jan. 46/1 The light intensity was 40Wm—2 from warm white fluorescent lights.
1942C. L. Amick *Fluorescent Lighting Man. i. 2 From a lamp and fixture market that did not exist 4 years ago, fluorescent lighting has grown to an estimated $250,000,000 business for 1941. 1953‘M. Innes’ Christmas at Candleshoe i. 11 With a flicker and a ping a bar of fluorescent lighting has snapped on. 1961L. Mumford City in History x. 298 The American super⁓market, with its ghastly fluorescent lighting.
1863G. G. Stokes in Phil. Trans. R. Soc. CLII. 615 On forming an image of the spark between a sharp and a flat electrode..and receiving it on a *fluorescent screen, the flat electrode gave the brighter of the two images. 1901F. H. Williams Roentgen Rays iii. 99 The X-ray examination by the photograph is better, as a rule, than that by the fluorescent screen for all parts of the body except the trunk. 1956M. Slurzberg et al. Ess. Television x. 361 The act of converging the beam of electrons to produce a pinpoint of light on the fluorescent screen is called focusing.
1938Trans. Illum. Engin. Soc. (London) III. 126/2 The low-pressure mercury vapour *fluorescent tube..is singularly comparable with the sodium lamp. |