phosphorescent
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8.8
- adjective
- /ˌfɑs.fəˈrɛs.ənt/
- Specialized
:
fosforescente
- The resort that they had come back to was out of the way and subdued, a quiet beach without college students or discos, just a few miles of white sand and phosphorescent blue water.
- phosphorescent green
- phosphorescent light
Examples
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And to his right was a metal door, marked with a faintly phosphorescent EXIT.
Fiction book (1991) -
This is much like if you shine light on a phosphorescent material.
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A small trapdoor is opened under the shuttle, and a huge, slightly phosphorescent tube falls out.
Fiction book (1997) -
Fagin watched a phosphorescent green lake spread beneath the drum.
Fiction book (1995) -
I walked on the beach with him one night one of those summers, and the water was phosphorescent, and our bare feet kicked up blue traces along the watery sand.
Fiction book (1998) -
These walls seem to have been covered with phosphorescent paint, which bathed graveyard in a cloudy, grayish haze for the longest time.
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The stars in the night sky appeared phosphorescent, glowing faintly without any heat.
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Children were fascinated by the phosphorescent fish swimming in the darkened aquarium.
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He painted the room with phosphorescent paint to give it a magical glow at night.
Synonyms
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Shining with a soft steady light like a lantern
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7.0
A thing that gives off light without heat, like fireflies or jellyfish
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To give off light or let light pass through
Light made by a chemical reaction without heat
How Bright
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3.1
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4.8
- Specialized
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8.8
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1.0
- Specialized
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word phosphorescent comes from Greek phosphoros meaning 'light-bringer' and the ending -escent meaning 'becoming'. So something phosphorescent slowly 'becomes light' and glows in the dark without giving off heat.