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What does phosphorescence mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word phosphorescence? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. The emission of light without any perceptible heat; the quality of being phosphorescent.
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A large cavern, lit only by the faintest glimmer of phosphorescence, was exposed, a vast lake in the centre.
He would watch for the telltale disturbance of phosphorescence in the water which meant the fish were rising on the ebb tide.
Sunset faded and the mainland lights fell away, surges of phosphorescence began to show.
There are many familiar examples of fluorescence and phosphorescence in our daily lives.
Now only the stars have been netted in the casuarinas and the surf snarls with eerie phosphorescence as if glowing with spectral fires.
The terms fluorescence and phosphorescence refer to specific characteristics of luminescent transitions.

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