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Epipolism

Epipolism \E*pip"o*lism\, n. [Gr. ? a surface; 'epi` + pe`lein to be.] (Opt.) See Fluorescence. [R.]
--Sir J. Herschel.

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epipolism

n. (cx obsolete English) fluorescence