fluoresce
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Is fluoresce a Scrabble word?
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Definition
verb (English)
1. (intransitive, physics) To emit electromagnetic radiation, especially visible light, when absorbing radiation of some other wavelength.Examples: "The blinding light did not hurt, it filled him, he glowed, all his veins fluoresced, each one alive with new growth."intransitive
2. (transitive, physics) To cause to fluoresce; to make fluorescent.Examples: "During right robotic thymectomy, fluorescence imaging facilitates identification of the contralateral phrenic nerve by fluorescing the pericardiophrenic vessels."transitive
3. (intransitive) Of colours, to be very bright; to be so bright as to appear to radiate as a light source.intransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary