fluorescent
pronunciation
How to pronounce fluorescent in British English:
UK [ˌflɔ:ˈresnt]
How to pronounce fluorescent in American English:
US [flʊˈrɛsənt, flɔ-, flo-]
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- Adjective:
- emitting light during exposure to radiation from an external source
- brilliantly colored and apparently giving off light
Word Origin
- fluorescent (adj.)
- 1853 (Stokes), from fluor- (see fluoro-) + -escent (see fluorescence). The electric fluorescent lamp was invented by Edison in 1896, but such lights were rare in homes before improved bulbs became available in the mid-1930s.
Example
- 1. Instead it was a molecule called green fluorescent protein .
- 2. The restaurant 's owner and chef , henry harris , wearing a fluorescent green vest , had just pulled up on a motorbike .
- 3. Incandescent light bulbs and fluorescent tubes are not really suitable for modulation , but they are yesterday 's lighting technology .
- 4. Mice so illuminated produced green fluorescent protein .
- 5. Shows off my new fluorescent green hearing aids better .