persistence characteristic
noun
A graph showing the decay of the brightness of a luminescent substance with time after the external source of energy is removed.
Origin
1930s; earliest use found in Proceedings of the Institute of Radio Engineers.
- plerome
- pleromorph
- plerophory
- plerosis
- plerotic
- plesiadapid
- plesiadapiform
- plesiadapoid
- Plesianthropus
- plesiaster
- plesiochronous
- plesiochronous digital hierarchy
- plesiomorphic
- plesiomorphous
- plesiomorphy
- plesiosaur
- plesiosaurian
- plesiosauroid
- Plesiosaurus
- plessimeter
- plessite
- plessor
- plet
- plethodontid
- plethora