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Definition: Phosphorescent |
PhosphorescentAdjective1. Emitting light without appreciable heat as by slow oxidation of phosphorous; "the phosphorescent glow of decaying wood". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "phosphorescent" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1808. (references) |
Etymology: Phosphorescent \Phos`phor*es"cent\, adjective. [Compare to the French expression phosphorescent.]. (Websters 1913) |
Crosswords: Phosphorescent |
| English words defined with "phosphorescent": Aethogen ♦ Bologna stone ♦ cathode-ray tube, CRT ♦ Dipyre ♦ Ignes fatui ♦ Luminous paint ♦ Noctilucin ♦ Phosphoreous, Pyrosome ♦ Scopeloid, Solar phosphori ♦ Viper fish. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "phosphorescent": ELECTRONICS ENGINEER ♦ radioactive paint ♦ self-luminous paint. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Phosphorescent" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. French (phosphorescent). |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Figure 56. Regnard phosphorescent tubes designed by the physiologist Paul Regnard to attract certain marine fish to nets and traps used in biological sampling. These tubes were designed about 1888 and used by Prince Albert I of Monaco with his sampling nets. Left: two-ring model. Right center: one-ring model. Bottom: Reflecting plate.Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
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Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Their faces are phosphorescent, with darker streaks. |
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| "Phosphorescent" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Phosphorescent" is used about 31 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 31 | 62,296 |
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 |
phosphorescent | 8 |
phosphorescent pigment | 8 |
phosphorescent paint | 7 |
bay phosphorescent | 6 |
phosphorescent powder | 4 |
phosphorescent plastic | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "phosphorescent"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | fosforeshent. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | متفسفر. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | фосфоресциращ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 磷光性. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | svìtélkující (luminescent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | Fosforescerende. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | Fosforescerend. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | fosforeska. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | تابنده(مثل فسفر), شب تاب (Phosphoric), درخشان (Ablaze, Bright, Illustrious, Lucid, Luminous, Shiner, Shiny, Starry, Stellar). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | Fosforoiva. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | phosphorescent. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | phosphoreszierend. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | φωσφορίζων (luminous), Φωσφορίζων. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | foszforeszkáló (luminescent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | fosforescente. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 夜光虫 (phosphorescent animalcule), 不知火 (phosphorescent light). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | しらぬひ (phosphorescent light), しらぬい (phosphorescent light), やこうちゅう (phosphorescent animalcule). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | lossanagh (aglow, auroral, blazing, bright, flaming, flaring, genial, impassioned, inflamed, inflammable, luminous, varnish). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | osphorescentphay Fosforescência (luminescence, phosphorescence). (various references) fosforescent (luminous, phosphorescently). (various references) фосфоресцирующий (noctilucous, photogenic). (various references) sionn. (various references) fosforescentni. (various references) fosforescente, fosforescencia (phosphorescence). (various references) Fosforescerande (noctilucous, phosphoric). (various references) fosfor gibi ışıldayan. (various references) фосфоруючий (phosphoric, photogenic). (various references) phát lân quang; lân quang. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "phosphorescent": phosphorescently. (additional references) | |
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"Phosphorescent" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: phosphorecent, phosphorenscent, phosphorescene. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "phosphorescent" (pronounced 'Phos`phor*es"cent'): Acaulescent, Accrescent, Acquiescent, Adducent, Adipescent, Adnascent, Albescent, Alkalescent, Arborescent, Candescent, Canescent, Caulescent, Cerulescent, Cinerescent, Circumjacent, Coalescent, Complacent, Conducent, Connascent, Contabescent, Decent, Dehiscent, Deliquescent, Delitescent, -escent, Fervescent, Flavescent, Florescent, fluorescent, Fremescent, Frutescent, Gangrenescent, Glaucescent, ignescent, incandescent, indecent, indehiscent, iridescent, liquescent, lucent, Lutescent, Maledicent, Manuducent, Marcescent, Maturescent, Nascent, Nigrescent, Obsolescent, Opalescent, Papescent. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-h-h-n-o-o-p-p-r-s-s-t" | |
-2 letters: phosphoresce, photospheres. | |
-3 letters: ctenophores, nephoscopes, photosphere. | |
-4 letters: copestones, copresents, ctenophore, nephoscope, noospheres, phosphenes, phosphores, postponers, prophetess, stonecrops. | |
-5 letters: copestone, copresent, creosotes, ethephons, hoopsters, horseshoe, nephroses, noosphere, oestrones, oospheres, otherness, phosphene, phosphore, phosphors, poechores, postponer, postpones, proptoses, prospects, proteoses, protheses, rechooses, reopposes, schooners, sheepcots, shoehorns, stonecrop. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-h-h-n-o-o-p-p-r-s-s-t" | |
+2 letters: phosphocreatines, phosphorescently. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 68 6F 73 70 68 6F 72 65 73 63 65 6E 74 |
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