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fluoro

fluoro noun: a fluorescent light.

Noun

fluoro (plural fluoros)

  1. (Australia, colloquial) A fluorescent light.
    • She held her grey felt hat in her hand, slapping the flat brim lightly against her leg as she walked, her tinted hair gleaming under the fluoros.2002, Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country, Allen & Unwin, published 2003, page 27
    • About one in 20 epilepsy sufferers are sensitive to flashing lights, which can include strobe lighting or flickering fluoros[…].2009 January 25, Dr Cindy Pan, “Living with epilepsy”, in Herald Sun

Adjective

fluoro (comparative more fluoro, superlative most fluoro)

  1. (Australia, New Zealand) Fluorescent.
    • And yes, as he peers beyond a boulder, down in the hollow he can make out two figures in khaki moving around a fluoro orange tent.1999, Julia Leigh, The Hunter, Faber & Faber 2012, p. 150

Forms of fluoro

Noun
pluralfluoros
Adjective
comparativemore fluoro
superlativemost fluoro

Origin of fluoro

From fluor(escent) + -o.

Questions about fluoro

What does fluoro mean?
Fluoro means a fluorescent light.
What part of speech is fluoro?
Fluoro can be a noun or an adjective.
What is the plural of fluoro?
The plural of fluoro is fluoros.

Words near fluoro in the dictionary

  1. fluoritization
  2. fluoritized
  3. fluormeter
  4. fluormeters
  5. fluornatromicrolite
  6. fluoro
  7. fluoro acid air
  8. fluoro-
  9. fluoro-magnesio-hastingsite
  10. fluoro-magnesiohastingsite
  11. fluoro-sodic-ferropedrizite

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