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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
luminescence
noun
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▪ As soon as a leaf dries, it begins to dull, lacking the luminescence that one full of juices has.
▪ First it lost its transparency, and became suffused with a pale, milky luminescence.
▪ In fact, optically stimulated luminescence tests and carbon 14 dating have proven their great age: they are almost certainly Neolithic.
▪ In geological materials, luminescence is commonly controlled by the balance of activator and quencher centres.
▪ Increasing beam energy beyond this level actually produces a decrease in luminescence intensity; this is the inhibition phase.
▪ It would be most unwise at present to rely solely on luminescence interpretations of geological phenomena.
▪ One category of luminescence, however, has a plain and unmistakable purpose.
▪ The golden crown of a sugar maple tinged with orange can startle you with its luminescence.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Luminescence

Luminescence \Lu`mi*nes"cence\, n. [See Luminescent.]

  1. (Physics) Any emission of light not ascribable directly to incandescence, and therefore occurring at low temperatures, as in phosphorescence and fluorescence or other luminous radiation resulting from vital processes, chemical action, friction, solution, or the influence of light or of ultraviolet or cathode rays, etc.

  2. (Zo["o]l.)

    1. The faculty or power of producing light by biological processes, as in the firefly and glowworm. Also called bioluminescence.

    2. The light produced by biological or biochemical processes. Also called bioluminescence.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
luminescence

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 not depend on the temperature of the substance concerned.

["Photographic News," April 20, 1888]

Wiktionary
luminescence

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

WordNet
luminescence
  1. n. light not due to incandescence; occurs at low temperatures

  2. light from nonthermal sources [syn: glow]

Wikipedia
Luminescence

Luminescence is emission of light by a substance not resulting from heat; it is thus a form of cold-body radiation. It can be caused by chemical reactions, electrical energy, subatomic motions, or stress on a crystal. This distinguishes luminescence from incandescence, which is light emitted by a substance as a result of heating. Historically, radioactivity was thought of as a form of "radio-luminescence", although it is today considered to be separate since it involves more than electromagnetic radiation. The term 'luminescence' was introduced in 1888 by Eilhard Wiedemann. The dials, hands, scales, and signs of aviation and navigational instruments and markings are often coated with luminescent materials in a process known as "luminising".

Luminescence (album)

Luminescence is the third international studio album by Anggun. The French-language version was released in France on 22 February 2005, while English-language version, also with the same title, was first released in Italy on 18 May 2005. The album was later repackaged in August 2006 as Luminescence: Special Edition with three brand new songs. Following her departure from Columbia Records in 2003, Anggun signed a recording contract with Heben Music. The album features production by several musicians, including Jean-Pierre Taïeb, Frédéric Jaffré and Niels Brinck. Anggun co-wrote music and lyrics of the entire album, except two tracks on the French version.

Luminescence became Anggun's comeback album in France, selling over 121,000 copies there. In Indonesia, the album was certified quadruple platinum for exceeding sales of over 450,000 copies as of 2015. With the album, Anggun expanded her popularity to Eastern Europe. Luminescence was certified gold in Russia, while the album's singles accumulatively received more than 79,000 plays on Russian radio according to TopHit.ru. Luminescence received Platinum Export Award for its sales outside France. The album spawned singles " Être une femme", " Cesse la pluie", " Juste avant toi" and "Garde-moi" (featuring David Hallyday) from the French version, as well as "Undress Me", " In Your Mind", " Saviour", " I'll Be Alright" and "A Crime" from the English version.

Luminescence (EP)

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

Luminescence (disambiguation)

Luminescence is emission of light by a substance not resulting from heat.

Luminescence may also refer to:

  • Luminescence (EP), an EP by Neon Highwire
  • Luminescence (album), an album by Anggun
  • Luminescence (journal), a scientific journal
  • Luminescence!, an album by Barry Harris
Luminescence (journal)

Luminescence: The Journal of Biological and Chemical Luminescence is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal publishing original scientific papers, short communications, technical notes, and reviews on fundamental and applied aspects of all forms of luminescence, including bioluminescence, chemiluminescence, electrochemiluminescence, sonoluminescence, triboluminescence, fluorescence, time-resolved fluorescence, and phosphorescence. The current editor-in-chief is L.J. Kricka ( University of Pennsylvania). It was established in 1986 by John Wiley & Sons as the Journal of Bioluminescence and Chemiluminescence and obtained its current title in 1999.

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.