luminescence

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *lewk-

Proto-Indo-European *-s-

Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥

Proto-Indo-European *léwksmn̥

Proto-Italic *louksmən

Latin lumen

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti

Proto-Indo-European *-sḱéti

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁sḱeti

Proto-Italic *-ēskō

Latin -ēscō

Latin -escensder.

English -escence

English luminescence

From Latin lumen + English -escence.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌluː.məˈnɛs.əns/

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• Hyphenation: lu‧min‧es‧cence
• Rhymes: -ɛsəns

Noun

luminescence (countable and uncountable, plural luminescences)

1. (physics) Any emission of light that cannot be attributed merely to the temperature of the emitting body.

Derived terms

• adsorboluminescence
• autoluminescence
• bioluminescence
• cathodoluminescence
• chemiluminescence
• chemoluminescence
• crystalloluminescence
• electroluminescence
• epiluminescence
• fractoluminescence
• galvanoluminescence
• immunoluminescence
• ionoluminescence
• magnetoluminescence
• mechanoluminescence
• oxoluminescence
• oxyluminescence
• photoluminescence
• piezoluminescence
• pyroluminescence
• radioluminescence
• radiophotoluminescence
• radiothermoluminescence
• roentgenoluminescence
• shrimpoluminescence
• sonoluminescence
• superluminescence
• thermoluminescence
• triboluminescence

Related terms

• fluorescence
• luminesce
• luminescent
• phosphorescence

Translations

emission

• Arabic: ضِيَائِيَّة f (ḍiyāʔiyya), تَأَلُّق m (taʔalluq)
• Basque: lumineszentzia (eu)
• Catalan: luminescència f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 冷光 (zh) (lěngguāng)

• Czech: luminiscence (cs) f
• Finnish: luminesenssi
• French: luminescence (fr) f
• Galician: luminiscencia (gl)
• Georgian: ლუმინესცენცია (luminescencia), ნათება (nateba)
• German: Lumineszenz (de) f
• Irish: lonracht f
• Italian: luminescenza (it) f
• Kazakh: люминесценция (lyuwmıynescencıya), сәулелену (säwlelenüw)
• Lithuanian: švietà f
• Macedonian: луминисце́нција f (luminiscéncija)
• Māori: aho hīnātore
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: luminescens m

  Nynorsk: luminescens m

• Persian: تابناکی (fa) (tâbnâki)
• Polish: luminescencja (pl) f
• Portuguese: luminescência (pt) f
• Romanian: luminiscență f
• Russian: свече́ние (ru) n (svečénije), люминесце́нция (ru) f (ljuminescéncija)
• Spanish: luminiscencia (es) f
• Tagalog: sanag, kasanagan
• Tamil: ஒளிப்பாயம் (oḷippāyam)
• Turkish: ışıldama (tr)
• Ukrainian: світі́ння n (svitínnja), сві́чення n (svíčennja), люмінесце́нція f (ljuminescéncija)
• Welsh: ymoleuedd f, goleuedd f

Further reading

• luminescence on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ly.mi.nɛ.sɑ̃s/ ~ /ly.mi.ne.sɑ̃s/

Noun

luminescence f (plural luminescences)

1. luminescence

Related terms

• luminescent

Further reading

• “luminescence”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012