fluorescence

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English[edit]

English Wikipedia has an article on:

fluorescence

Etymology[edit]

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

Morphologically fluoresce +‎ -ence.

Pronunciation[edit]

(General American) IPA^(key): /flʊˈɹɛsəns/, /flɔ-/, /floʊ-/
Audio (US) (file)
Homophone: florescence, in some pronunciations

Noun[edit]

fluorescence (countable and uncountable, plural fluorescences)

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

Derived terms[edit]

Translations[edit]

emission of light

Catalan: fluorescència f
Chinese:
Cantonese: 熒光／荧光 (jing⁴ gwong¹)

Mandarin: 熒光／荧光 (zh) (yíngguāng)
Esperanto: fluoreskeco
Finnish: fluoresenssi (fi)
French: fluorescence (fr) f
Greek: φθορισμός (el) m (fthorismós)
Indonesian: fluoresen (id)
Japanese: 蛍光 (ja) (けいこう, keikō)
Korean: 형광(螢光) (hyeonggwang)
Malay: pendarfluor
Occitan: fluorescéncia (oc) f
Portuguese: fluorescência (pt) f
Spanish: fluorescencia f
Vietnamese: huỳnh quang (vi)

French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from English fluorescence.

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): /fly.ɔ.ʁɛ.sɑ̃s/
Audio (file)

Noun[edit]

fluorescence f (plural fluorescences)

(physics) fluorescence

Related terms[edit]

fluorescent

See also[edit]

Further reading[edit]

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

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