What is "fluorescent"

Usage examples of "fluorescent".

Over time, selective breeding, bioengineering, and cosmetic injections have made the whole damned populace fluorescent.

It was expensive stuff, judging from the brushed stainless-steel cabinetry and the remains of flat panel and vacuum fluorescent displays.

In fact they were soon to become an item around Shade Creek, out to all hours among the milling sleepless of the town, along the smoky indoor promenades lit by shadow-patched fluorescent bulbs, across covered bridges lined with shops and stalls, beneath the many clockfaces beaming from overhead, past Thanatoid dogs lounging in groups, who had learned how to give up wagging their tails and now gestured meaningfully with them instead.

When this fell upon many varieties of corals and shells, they seemed to burst into fire, blazing with fluorescent blues and golds and greens in the darkness.

Their crests darkened and shivered across their scalps and the shimmering swirls on their selkieskins flared into brilliant blue and red fluorescent life for a few seconds.

Nardie Dinh dutifully held the tool up in the fluorescent light and read the number on the round metal sleeve.

The lighting was a mix of fluorescent tubes and recessed incandescent downlights, allowing the amount of light in the room to be varied.

Then I added a small refrigerator and a fluorescent light, a large electric stove, a kitchen cabinet, and a foldout counter.

The back door of Meadowlark House will slam, and two tiny figures in fluorescent orange will emerge, carrying matchstick rifles.

He himself was the height of fashion, as always, from his shocking pink cutaway frock coat to his fluorescent face and shoulder-length metallicized hair of burning bronze.

Finlay had to wonder if perhaps the fashion for fluorescent skin and metallicized hair was over.

He painted his face with a fluorescent stick, metallicized his hair with several quick sweeps, and set off for the board meeting with his thoughts roiling in his head like great waves tossed by a storm.

He looked, in the fluorescent lights of the bookstore, pastier than ever.

Glow panels hung in place of the old fluorescent lighting fixtures, while the rest of the ceiling space was taken up by pipes, air vents, and surveillance monitors.

Fox large-head sticks a nauseous West-Coast fluorescent orange with the trademark fox-glyph painted on the strings.