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Etymology
Back-formation from fluorescence.
Pronunciation
Verb
fluoresce (third-person singular simple present fluoresces, present participle fluorescing, simple past and past participle fluoresced)
- (intransitive, physics) To emit electromagnetic radiation, especially visible light, when absorbing radiation of some other wavelength.
1974, John Boorman, Zardoz, London: Pan Books, page 98:The blinding light did not hurt, it filled him, he glowed, all his veins fluoresced, each one alive with new growth.
- (transitive, physics) To cause to fluoresce; to make fluorescent.
2012, Oliver J. Wagner, Brian E. Louie, Eric Vallières, Ralph W. Aye, Alexander S. Farivar, “Near-Infrared Fluorescence Imaging Can Help Identify the Contralateral Phrenic Nerve During Robotic Thymectomy”, in The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, volume 94, →DOI, page 622:During right robotic thymectomy, fluorescence imaging facilitates identification of the contralateral phrenic nerve by fluorescing the pericardiophrenic vessels.
- (intransitive) Of colours, to be very bright; to be so bright as to appear to radiate as a light source.
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