fluorescence
/flʊˈɹɛsəns/
fluorescence noun: the emission of light (or other electromagnetic radiation) by a material when stimulated by the absorption of radiation or of a subatomic particle.
Noun
fluorescence (countable and uncountable, plural fluorescences)
- The emission of light (or other electromagnetic radiation) by a material when stimulated by the absorption of radiation or of a subatomic particle.
- A multi-institution US research team has combined some creative chemistry, fluorescence microscopy and laser-driven microballistics to gain a clearer view of just what happens in a high-strain-rate impact, and to tease out the relative contribution of different kinds of energy dissipation within...2024 October 7, Stewart Wills, “A Deeper View of High-Speed Impacts”, in Optics & Photonics News
- The light so emitted.
fluorescence meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Malay and Indonesian
fluorescence in Hindi
- emission of light
- प्रतिदीप्ति pratidīpti
fluorescence in Tamil
- உறிஞ்சியொளிவீசல், ஒளிர்தல், உடனொளிர்தல், உடனொளிர்வு, மிளிர்வு, ஒளி வண்ணம்
fluorescence in Malay
- emission of light
- pendarfluor
fluorescence in Indonesian
- emission of light
- fluoresen
More languagesFewer languages
- fluorescence in Vietnamese
- huỳnh quang
Examples of fluorescence in a sentence
- The antibody staining was semiquantitated by measuring mean fluorescence intensities (MFIs) with NIH Image J software (U.S.
- Likewise in fluorescence applications, an epifluorescence configuration is normally chosen over transfluorescence.
- "Using sequencing data combined with spectral fluorescence imaging, we have discovered a multigenus, highly organized microbial consortium in human dental plaque."
Forms of fluorescence
| plural | fluorescences |
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Origin of fluorescence
Coined by British physicist George Stokes in 1852 from fluorspar + -escence.
Words formed from fluorescence
- 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
- nuclear gamma resonance fluorescence
- pseudofluorescence
- recoilless nuclear resonance fluorescence
- spectrofluorescence
- stereofluorescence
- superfluorescence
- thermofluorescence
- transfluorescence
- videofluorescence
- X-ray fluorescence
Phrases with fluorescence
Questions about fluorescence
- What does fluorescence mean?
- Fluorescence means the emission of light (or other electromagnetic radiation) by a material when stimulated by the absorption of radiation or of a subatomic particle.
- What is fluorescence in Hindi?
- Fluorescence in Hindi is प्रतिदीप्ति (pratidīpti). See Fluorescence meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is fluorescence?
- Fluorescence is a noun.
- How do you pronounce fluorescence?
- Fluorescence is pronounced /flʊˈɹɛsəns/ (US).
- What is the plural of fluorescence?
- The plural of fluorescence is fluorescences.
Words near fluorescence in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: fluorescence (page history and authors); fluorescence (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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