fluorescence
nounEtymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-der. Proto-Indo-European *bʰlewH-der. Proto-Indo-European *bʰluH-yé-ti? Latin fluō Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *-ōs Proto-Italic *-ōs Latin -or Latin fluorbor. English fluor Proto-Indo-European *-tósder. Ancient Greek -της (-tēs)der. Ancient Greek -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs)der. Latin -ītēsbor. French -iteder. English -ite English fluorite Middle Low German sparder. Old English spærstān Middle English sparston English sparstonebf. English spar blend English fluorspar Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti Proto-Indo-European *-sḱéti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁sḱeti Proto-Italic *-ēskō Latin -ēscō Latin -escensder. English -escence English fluorescence Coined by British physicist George Stokes in 1852 from fluorspar + -escence. Morphologically fluoresce + -ence.
Definitions
The emission of light (or other electromagnetic radiation) by a material when stimulated…
The emission of light (or other electromagnetic radiation) by a material when stimulated by the absorption of radiation or of a subatomic particle.
The light so emitted.
The neighborhood
Derived
autofluorescence, bifluorescence, biofluorescence, chemifluorescence, cryofluorescence, cytofluorescence, cytoimmunofluorescence, epifluorescence, fluoresce, fluorescein, fluorescence anisotropy, fluorescence microscope, fluorescence microscopy, fluorescence spectroscopy, fluorescent, histofluorescence, hyperfluorescence, hypofluorescence, immunocytofluorescence, immunofluorescence, macrofluorescence, magnetofluorescence, microfluorescence, multifluorescence, neurofluorescence, nonfluorescence, pseudofluorescence, spectrofluorescence, stereofluorescence, superfluorescence, thermofluorescence, transfluorescence, videofluorescence, X-ray fluorescence
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for fluorescence. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA