Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To be or become luminescent.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To emit light other than that due to ordinary incandescence. See luminescence.
Wiktionary
- v. To give off light, including in the invisible electromagnetic radiation frequencies, or become luminescent.
WordNet 3.0
- v. be or become luminescent; exhibit luminescence
Etymologies
- Back-formation from luminescent. (Wiktionary)
- Back-formation from luminescence. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“I just do my research to understand why jellyfish luminesce.”
“I just do my research to understand why jellyfish luminesce, and why that protein fluoresce?”
“The dogs practically luminesce in the gorgeous, precise prose with which Wroblewski conjures them.”
“If a material completes the circuit, the light bulb will luminesce, indicating that it is a conductor.”
“It's no surprise they would move the birth of the Christ Child from April to this cruel week, just to let the story luminesce from within.”
“Some manifest as cohesive gatherings of charged plasma that will luminesce more brightly as the creature gains strength; this can be useful when gauging the effectiveness of countermeasures.”
“Water shoots scalding from the chimney at the north end of the Throat, curdles and mixes with deep icy saline; microbes caught in the turbulence luminesce madly.”
“Pi-conjugated polymers luminesce when excited by electricity or a light source.”
“Pending final approval of funding, the detector will be filled with a hydrocarbon-based scintillation fluid, which, when a geoneutrino is caught, will luminesce and trigger the detector.”
Science News / Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, News Items and Book Reviews
“But Thursday night, in this big room where the projector has got to throw quite a distance, the HD looked very sharp indeed when showing original DV footage, with deep inky blacks, reasonably high contrast, popping colors (the screen seemed to luminesce) and absolute rock stability.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘luminesce’.
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WF - list of EN back-formations
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_back-formations
aborigine, accrete, acculturate, admix, admixture, adolesce, adsorb, adulate, advect, aesthete, air-condition, anticline and 212 more...
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ghost
This is Ghost List 2 ( the kind that go 'boo!' ) :P
( open list )
more:
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/macabrephantom, spectral, specter, spectre, spooky, poltergeist, haunt, spirit, banshee, cryptic, shadow, phantasm and 311 more...
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words found to be generally pleasing
alabaster, mahogany, camphor, coalesce, spire, portmanteau, gadabout, palaver, dolor, dour, dun, luminesce and 610 more...
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Having: C; m; e
Goodies pulled from a list I've compiled of most-every word having these letters in common — It's going take to take a long, long time to actually get through (and I may want to extend it lat...
chamber, chimney, compesce, imperch, ipom�ic, lambency, premier cru, recumbence, simnelcake, succumbence, umbeschew, almacle and 631 more...
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wordies
starriness, pearl diver, mollusk, apropos, velvet, malaise, galaxy, quaternary, swift, nebulae, lilliputian, woodthrush and 30 more...
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Bioluminescence
Words associated with that wonderful natural phenomenon.
chemiluminescent, bioluminescent di..., noctiluca, luciferase, photophores, luminesce, phosphorescence, foxfire, luminous click be..., photoproteins, blue-green sunlight, light organ and 5 more...
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