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Answer for the clue "Light not due to incandescence ", 12 letters:
luminescence

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Luminescence is the first EP from the British electropop band Neon Highwire . It was released on Health Bomber .

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1884, from Latin lumen (genitive luminis ) "light" (see luminous ) + -escence .\n\nFluorescence and Phosphorescence -- Prof. E. Wiedmann has made a new study of these phenomena. He proposes the general name luminescence for evolutions of light which do ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context physics English) Any emission of light that cannot be attributed merely to the temperature of the emitting body.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. light not due to incandescence; occurs at low temperatures light from nonthermal sources [syn: glow ]

Usage examples of luminescence.

It was waves of light, creamily golden light tinged with a border of green, and within its vacillating luminescence was a message.

For a moment, she gazed into its faceted sensor array, and then dots of luminescence skittered across its smooth blackmantle, forming letters.

They swirled about Kutch and the stranger, then as quickly vanished, replaced by a misty luminescence that girdled man and boy.

Angry green luminescence that had once been called nebulium edged these stormy, denser regions.

Within, it was presently lit by odiferous, smoky fat lamps and their wavering luminescence flung huge, distorted shadows upon the ancient walls.

Down by the mainmast, a seated Hunkapa Aub saw the blue luminescence and delightedly clapped two massive hands together.

More quartzite filled the space, reflecting a faint luminescence from what appeared to be a ceiling of crushed glass fifteen feet above him.

I would finish my last shift of the week at eleven, grab a thermos of coffee and put the top down on the 442, plug Robin Trower or the Doobie Brothers into the tape deck and move, flying through the wide circles of gray-white luminescence that dotted the freeway during the first part of the trip, where there were still streetlights.

And through the luminescence that held the valley suspended in daylit, moonlit half-light, Will saw six figures take shape.

As the luminescence moved, there moved above it, still and serene always, seven tiny globes of seven colors, like seven little moons.

It brightened until no one could miss seeing the bright white luminescence.

Nonrecycled, high-acid, coarse pulp with minimal optical brighteners and low luminescence.

It was the inner radiance housed within those female bodies, a luminescence that some men had craved as much as they might have craved a light they could see glowing in a window when they were standing out in the cold.

Restless in Silvanost, drawn by cold light, by the intricate forest of magic, to the North he came, to glittering Istar where the tests of High Sorcery awaited his judgment, his ordained mathematics, and the first test past, and the second surmounted, he stood as if satisfied high on the parapets in doubtful, striated light, the vaunt of his intellect over the globe of the city, where the green luminescence of the dangered orb called to him out of the Tower's heart.

Impelled by some psychokinetic force, the heroic pair separated, gliding a few centimeters above the salt, which now had assumed a dull-red luminescence in the overcast dawn.