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FLUORESCE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they fluoresce ... he / she / it fluoresces
Past simple: fluoresced
Past participle: fluoresced
-ing form: fluorescing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Exhibit or undergo fluorescence
Classified under:
Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling
Hypernyms (to "fluoresce" is one way to...):
glow (emit a steady even light without flames)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "fluoresce"):
scintillate (physics: fluoresce momentarily when struck by a charged particle or high-energy photon)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Derivation:
fluorescence (light emitted during absorption of radiation of some other (invisible) wavelength)
fluorescent (emitting light during exposure to radiation from an external source)
fluorescent (brilliantly colored and apparently giving off light)
