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Definition: Afterglow |
AfterglowNoun1. A glow sometimes seen in the sky after sunset. 2. The pleasure of remembering some pleasant event; "he basked in the afterglow of his victory". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "afterglow" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1869. (references) |
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Aerospace | 1. A broad, high arch of radiance or glow seen occasionally in the western sky above the highest clouds in deepening twilight, caused by the scattering effect of very fine particles of dust suspended in the upper atmosphere. 2. The transient decay of a plasma after the power has been turned off.The decay time involved is a direct consequence of the charged particle loss mechanisms, such as diffusion and recombination. The magnitude of these quantities is determined by measuring the decay time under controlled conditions. (references) |
Geography | Broad high arch of radiance seen occasionally in the western sky above the highest clouds in deepening twilight. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Stage in the alpine glow, namely the illumination of mountain tops by diffusely reflected radiation caused by the purple light. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Post & Telecom | Visual sensation occuring when the light or the stimulation on a screen display is not present anymore. Source: European Union. (references) |
Public Administration | The continuation of glowing of a burning material after the cessation of flaming. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The afterglow is the broad high arch of whitish or rosy light appearing occasionally in the sky above the highest clouds in the hour of deepening twilight, or reflected from the high snowfields in mountain regions long after sunset. The phenomenon is due to very fine particles of dust suspended in the high regions of the atmosphere that produce a scattering effect upon the component parts of white light. After the eruption of Krakatoa in 1883, a remarkable series of red sunsets appeared all over the world. These were due to an enormous amount of exceedingly fine dust blown to a great height by that terrific explosion, and then universally diffused by the high atmospheric currents.Dust particles cause other similar phenomenona, like the Gegenschein.
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Decrement | Noun: decrement, discount, defect, loss, deduction; afterglow; eduction; waste. |
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Movie/TV Titles | Afterglow (1923) | |
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| "Icy 2" by Jamie Harris Commentary: "The afterglow of an ice storm." |
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Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | The instant flashed forth like a point of light and now from cloud on cloud of vague circumstance confused form was veiling softly its afterglow. |
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| "Afterglow" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Afterglow" is used about 26 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 26 | 68,323 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
afterglow | 62 |
afterglow maybe re we | 7 |
afterglow mello yello | 5 |
afterglow blue jade | 5 |
so much for the afterglow | 3 |
afterglow poem | 3 |
afterglow everclear lyrics much so | 3 |
afterglow morning | 3 |
everclear so much for the afterglow | 2 |
afterglow photo | 2 |
afterglow genesis | 2 |
afterglow lyrics | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "afterglow"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | muzg (dark, dusk, duskiness, gloaming, nightfall, owl-light, shadow, sunset, twilight). (various references) | |
Arabic | الشفق (twilight). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | вечерно сияние, зарево. (various references) | |
Chinese | 残光 (After-glow). (various references) | |
Danish | restglød, efterskin, efterlysen, efterglσd. (various references) | |
Dutch | avondrood, alpengloeien, alpengloed, nalichttijd (persistance), nagloei, naglans, nagenieten, nabeeld (afterimage, persistence), gloeistadium. (various references) | |
Farsi | پس فروزش , پس تاب . (various references) | |
Finnish | jälkihohto (after-glow, persistence), jälkihehkuminen, jälkihehku. (various references) | |
French | postluminescence, persistance sur l'écran radar (afterimage), lueur secondaire, incandescence résiduelle, durée de rémanence, derniers reflets. (various references) | |
Frisian | jûnsrea. (various references) | |
German | nachleuchten (luminesce, persistence, phosphorescence). (various references) | |
Greek | μεταφωτισμός, μεταλαμπή, μεταίσθημα ειδώλου (afterimage, persistence), μεταίσθημα (afterimage, persistence), απομένουσα πυράκτωση, δευτερεύουσα φωταύγεια. (various references) | |
Hungarian | utánvilágítás, utánizzás, lemenõ nap utolsó sugarai. (various references) | |
Italian | ultimi bagliori, persistenza di immagine (afterimage, persistence), luminescenza residua, luce secondaria, incandescenza residua, bagliore residuo. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 残照 , 残光 , 余光 (lingering light). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ざんしょう, ざんこう (defamation, false charge, lingering scent, slander), よこう (lingering light, lingering odor, preliminary draft, rehearsal). (various references) | |
Korean | 잔조 (After-glow). (various references) | |
Manx | aahollys. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aftergloway.(various references) | |
Portuguese | persistência de imagem (afterimage, persistence), pós-luminescência, luar/claridade secundária, incandescência residual. (various references) | |
Romanian | amurg (candlelight, crepuscule, decline, dusk, gloaming, nightfall, sunset, twilight), reacţie (reaction, response, reverberation). (various references) | |
Russian | вечерняя заря (retreat), закат (sundown, sunset), послесвечение (afterimage). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | večernje rumenilo posle zalaska sunca. (various references) | |
Spanish | resplandor crepuscular, postluminiscencia, persistencia de imagen (afterimage, persistence), incandescencia residual, claridad secundaria. (various references) | |
Swedish | efterglans. (various references) | |
Turkish | gün batımı sonrası kızıllık. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | відблиск (blink, glisten, glow, reflection, reflexion), вечірня заграва. (various references) | |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "afterglow": afterglows. (additional references) | |
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"Afterglow" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: afterflow. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "afterglow" (pronounced a"fterglō') |
| 3 | -g l ō' | airglow. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-f-g-l-o-r-t-w" | |
-1 letter: fleawort, waterlog. | |
-2 letters: fagoter, felwort, floater, flotage, flowage, gloater, legator, refloat. | |
-3 letters: falter, florae, floret, flower, foetal, folate, forage, forgat, forget, fowler, galore, gaoler, garote, gelato, glower, golfer, legato, loafer, lofter, orgeat, reflow, reglow, tergal, towage, trowel, twofer, wafter, wolfer. | |
-4 letters: afore, after, aglet, aglow, alert, algor, aloft, alter, argle, argol, argot, artel, ergot. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-f-g-l-o-r-t-w" | |
+1 letter: afterglows. | |
+3 letters: waterfowling. | |
+4 letters: waterflooding, waterfowlings. | |
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