luminescence

luminescence

English

Etymology

From Latin lumen +‎ -escence.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌluː.məˈnɛs.əns/

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• Hyphenation: lu‧min‧es‧cence
• Rhymes: -ɛsəns

Noun

luminescence (countable and uncountable, plural luminescences)

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

Derived terms

• adsorboluminescence
• autoluminescence
• bioluminescence
• cathodoluminescence
• chemiluminescence
• chemoluminescence
• crystalloluminescence
• electroluminescence
• immunoluminescence
• magnetoluminescence
• mechanoluminescence
• photoluminescence
• piezoluminescence
• radioluminescence
• radiophotoluminescence
• radiothermoluminescence
• roentgenoluminescence
• sonoluminescence
• superluminescence
• thermoluminescence

 

Related terms

• fluorescence
• luminesce
• luminescent
• phosphorescence

 

Translations

emission

Basque: lumineszentzia (eu) Catalan: luminescència f Czech: luminiscence (cs) f Finnish: luminesenssi French: luminescence (fr) f Galician: luminiscencia (gl) German: Lumineszenz (de) f Irish: lonracht f Italian: luminescenza (it) f Lithuanian: švietà f Maori: aho hīnātore Norwegian: Bokmål: luminescens m Nynorsk: luminescens m Persian: تابناکی‎ (fa) (tābnākī) Polish: luminescencja f Portuguese: luminescência (pt) f Romanian: luminiscență f Russian: свече́ние (ru) n (svečénije), люминесце́нция (ru) f (ljuminescéncija) Spanish: luminiscencia f Tagalog: sanag, kasanagan Tamil: ஒளிப்பாயம் (oḷippāyam) Turkish: ışıldama (tr)

Further reading

• luminescence on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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French

Noun

luminescence f (plural luminescences)

1. luminescence

Related terms

• luminescent

Further reading

• “luminescence”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.