phosphorescence

English

Etymology

From phosphorescent. Morphologically phosphoresce +‎ -ence.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌfɒs.fəˈɹɛs.əns/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌfɑs.fəˈɹɛs.əns/

• Audio (US):

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• Homophone: phosphorescents

Noun

phosphorescence (countable and uncountable, plural phosphorescences)

1. The emission of light without any perceptible heat; the quality of being phosphorescent.
   • 2002, Barbara Vine, Grasshopper, page 138:

     We saw a round red sun rise over the City, paint the glassy towers with phosphorescence and, as it brightened and lost its shape, sprinkle across the sky feathers of pink and lilac.

Derived terms

• electrophosphorescence
• hyperphosphorescence
• photophosphorescence

Translations

emission of light without heat

Bengali: অনুপ্রভা (onuprobha) Bulgarian: фосфоресценция f (fosforescencija) Catalan: fosforescència f Chinese: Mandarin: 磷光 (zh) (línguāng) Esperanto: fosforesko Finnish: fosforesenssi French: phosphorescence (fr) f Galician: fosforescencia f German: Nachleuchten n, Phosphoreszenz f Greek: φωσφορισμός (el) m (fosforismós) Irish: méarnáil f (on sea), gealán m (on land), tine ghealáin f Italian: fosforescenza (it) f Japanese: 燐光 (ja) (りんこう, rinkō) Korean: 인광(燐光) (ko) (in'gwang) Maori: porotitiwai, pūrātoke, hīnātore Norwegian: Bokmål: fosforescens m Nynorsk: fosforescens m Occitan: fosforescéncia (oc) f Polish: fosforescencja (pl) f Portuguese: fosforescência (pt) f Russian: фосфоресценция (ru) f (fosforescencija) Spanish: fosforescencia f Swedish: fosforescens (sv) c, fosforsken n Tagalog: pospowanag Vietnamese: lân quang (vi) Welsh: ffosfforedd m

See also

• phosphorescence on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• luminescence

French

Pronunciation

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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Noun

phosphorescence f (plural phosphorescences)

1. phosphorescence

Further reading

• “phosphorescence”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.