FLUORESCE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Present simple: I / you / we / they fluoresce ... he / she / it fluoresces

Past simple: fluoresced

Past participle: fluoresced

-ing form: fluorescing

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:

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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)