overglow

English

Etymology

From over- +‎ glow.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌəʊvəˈɡləʊ/

Verb

overglow (third-person singular simple present overglows, present participle overglowing, simple past and past participle overglowed)

1. To beam or radiate; glow exceedingly or excessively

Noun

overglow (countable and uncountable, plural overglows)

1. The glow of light appearing above or surrounding an object; halation
2. The state of excessive glowing.
   • 1917, Lafcadio Hearn, Exotics and Retrospectives‎, Little, Brown, and Company, page 256:

     The very color itself would make appeal to special kinds of inherited feelings, simply because of its relation to awful spectacles, —the glare of the volcano-summit, the furious vermilion of lava, the raging of forest-fires, the overglow of cities kindling in the track of war, the smouldering of ruin, the blazing of funeral-pyres. And in this lurid race-memory of fire as destroyer, —as the " ravening ghost" of Northern fancy,—there would mingle a vague distress evolved through ancestral experience of crimson heat in rdation to pain, — an organic horror. And the like tremendous color in celestial phenomena would revive also inherited terror related of old to ideas of the portentous and of the wrath of gods.

   • 1987, Frank D. Shepard, Sign Legibility for Modified Messages‎, Virginia Transportation Research Council, page 3:

     Studies have shown that because of overglow, or irradiation, at night, the lettering of signs fabricated with encaspulated lens sheeting appears to be narrower; consequently, it lose some of its legibility.

   • 1988, Jim King, Hope Can't Come‎, Castle Press, page 142:

     That was unusual for Atlanta. Normally, it was hard to see all the stars through the overglow of the lights, even on a dark night like tonight. Must be a new moon.

Antonyms

• underglow