PHOSPHORESCENCE
\fˌɒsfəɹˈɛsəns], \fˌɒsfəɹˈɛsəns], \f_ˌɒ_s_f_ə_ɹ_ˈɛ_s_ə_n_s]\
Definitions of PHOSPHORESCENCE
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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By Oddity Software
By Noah Webster.
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The property of giving off light without emitting a corresponding degree of heat. It includes the luminescence of inorganic matter or the bioluminescence of human matter, invertebrates and other living organisms. For the luminescence of bacteria, LUMINESCENCE, BACTERIAL is available.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By James Champlin Fernald
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The state of being luminous without sensible heat; common in marine Protozoa, some Copepods, and the majority of deep-sea animals.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
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The properties possessed by certain bodies of being luminous in obscurity, or under particular circumstances. This phosphorescence has been occasionally witnessed in man, when suffering from some wasting disease, and near death.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
