"iridescence" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˌɪɹ.ɪˈdɛs.əns/ Forms: iridescences [plural]
Rhymes: -ɛsəns Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} iridescence (countable and uncountable, plural iridescences)
  1. The condition or state of being iridescent; exhibition of colors like those of the rainbow; a prismatic play of color. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (The condition or state of being iridescent; exhibition of colors like those of the rainbow; a prismatic play of color): iridescència [feminine] (Catalan), iridescence [feminine] (French), Iridisieren [neuter] (German), iridescenza [feminine] (Italian), 훈색 (hunsaek) (alt: 暈色) (Korean), iridescéncia [feminine] (Occitan), irizacion [feminine] (Occitan), mirgalhadura (Occitan), iryzacja [feminine] (Polish), tęczowanie [neuter] (Polish), иризация (irizacija) [feminine] (Russian), iridiscencia [feminine] (Spanish), regnbågsskimmer [neuter] (Swedish), irisering [common-gender] (Swedish), silak (Tagalog), kasilakan (Tagalog)
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  2. Any shimmer of glittering and changeable colors. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (Any shimmer of glittering and changeable colors): блясък (bljasǎk) [masculine] (Bulgarian), преливане на цветове (prelivane na cvetove) (Bulgarian), iridescéncia (Occitan), mirgalhadura (Occitan), mirgalhadís (Occitan), kölamufät (Volapük), symudliwiad [masculine] (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-iridescence-en-noun-J7Y-Lmtw Disambiguation of 'Any shimmer of glittering and changeable colors': 5 95
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: iridescent, iridescently, iridesce, luminescence, fluorescence

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-10-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-09-20 using wiktextract (3fd8a50 and 59b8406). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.