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PHOSPHORESCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does phosphoresce mean? 

PHOSPHORESCE (verb)
  The verb PHOSPHORESCE has 1 sense:

1. to exhibit phosphorescenceplay

  Familiarity information: PHOSPHORESCE used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PHOSPHORESCE (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they phosphoresce  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it phosphoresces  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: phosphoresced  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: phosphoresced  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: phosphorescing  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

To exhibit phosphorescence

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Hypernyms (to "phosphoresce" is one way to...):

exhibit (show an attribute, property, knowledge, or skill)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Derivation:

phosphorescence (a fluorescence that persists after the bombarding radiation has ceased)

phosphorescent (emitting light without appreciable heat as by slow oxidation of phosphorous)


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