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
- inconclusiveness
- Inconel
- in conference
- incongruence
- incongruent
- incongruently
- incongruity
- incongruous
- incongruously
- incongruousness
- in conjunction
- in connection with
- inconnu
- inconsecutive
- inconsecutively
- in consequence
- inconsequence
- inconsequent
- inconsequential
- inconsequentiality
- inconsequentially
- inconsequentialness
- inconsequently
- inconsiderable
- inconsiderate