fluorescence

English

Etymology

Coined 1852 by physicist George Stokes from fluorspar +‎ -escence.

Morphologically fluoresce +‎ -ence.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /flʊˈɹɛsəns/, /flɔ-/, /floʊ-/

• Audio (US):

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• Homophone: florescence, in some pronunciations

Noun

fluorescence (countable and uncountable, plural fluorescences)

1. (physics) The emission of light (or other electromagnetic radiation) by a material when stimulated by the absorption of radiation or of a subatomic particle.
2. The light so emitted.

Derived terms

• autofluorescence
• biofluorescence
• chemifluorescence
• cytofluorescence
• cytoimmunofluorescence
• epifluorescence
• fluoresce
• fluorescein
• fluorescence anisotropy
• fluorescence microscope
• fluorescence microscopy
• fluorescence spectroscopy
• fluorescent
• histofluorescence
• hyperfluorescence
• hypofluorescence
• immunocytofluorescence
• immunofluorescence
• magnetofluorescence
• microfluorescence
• multifluorescence
• neurofluorescence
• nonfluorescence
• pseudofluorescence
• spectrofluorescence
• stereofluorescence
• superfluorescence
• transfluorescence
• videofluorescence
• X-ray fluorescence

 

Translations

emission of light

• Catalan: fluorescència f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 熒光／荧光 (jing⁴ gwong¹), 荧光 (jing⁴ gwong¹)

  Mandarin: 熒光／荧光 (zh) (yíngguāng), 荧光 (zh) (yíngguāng)

• Finnish: fluoresenssi (fi)
• Japanese: 蛍光 (ja) (けいこう, keikō)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Korean: 형광(螢光) (hyeonggwang)
• Occitan: fluorescéncia (oc) f
• Portuguese: fluorescência (pt) f
• Spanish: fluorescencia f
• Vietnamese: huỳnh quang (vi)

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fly.ɔ.ʁɛ.sɑ̃s/ ~ /fly.ɔ.ʁe.sɑ̃s/

• Audio:

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Noun

fluorescence f (plural fluorescences)

1. (physics) fluorescence

Further reading

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