"fluoresce" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

IPA: /fləˈɹɛs/, /flʊəˈɹɛs/ Forms: fluoresces [present, singular, third-person], fluorescing [participle, present], fluoresced [participle, past], fluoresced [past]
Rhymes: -ɛs Etymology: Back-formation from fluorescence. Etymology templates: {{back-form|en|fluorescence}} Back-formation from fluorescence Head templates: {{en-verb}} fluoresce (third-person singular simple present fluoresces, present participle fluorescing, simple past and past participle fluoresced)
  1. (intransitive, physics) To emit electromagnetic radiation, especially visible light, when absorbing radiation of some other wavelength. Tags: intransitive Categories (topical): Physics
    Sense id: en-fluoresce-en-verb-rZtoqBMb Categories (other): English back-formations, English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English back-formations: 66 25 9 Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 72 23 5 Topics: natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics
  2. (transitive, physics) To cause to fluoresce; to make fluorescent. Tags: transitive Categories (topical): Physics
    Sense id: en-fluoresce-en-verb-pRQI8VxZ Topics: natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics
  3. (intransitive) Of colours, to be very bright; to be so bright as to appear to radiate as a light source. Tags: intransitive
    Sense id: en-fluoresce-en-verb-yAFd64WB
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: fluorescence, fluorescent, fluorescer, fluorescently

Inflected forms

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