Usually means: Emission of light by substances.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. fluorescence: Merriam-Webster
  2. fluorescence: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fluorescence: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. fluorescence: Collins English Dictionary
  5. fluorescence: Vocabulary.com
  6. Fluorescence, fluorescence: Wordnik
  7. fluorescence: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. fluorescence: Wiktionary
  9. fluorescence: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. fluorescence: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. fluorescence: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. fluorescence: Dictionary.com
  13. fluorescence: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Fluorescence (album), Fluorescence: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Fluorescence: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. fluorescence: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. fluorescence: Rhymezone
  18. Fluorescence: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. fluorescence: FreeDictionary.org
  20. fluorescence: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. fluorescence: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. fluorescence: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fluorescence: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. fluorescence: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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  5. fluorescence: Medical dictionary

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Drug Discovery and Development (No longer online)
  2. Fluorescence: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  3. Mars Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Fluorescence: Extragalactic Astronomy

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Fluorescence: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Basics of Space Flight Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Fluorescence: Gems and Precious Stones
  3. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)

(Note: See fluorescences as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (fluorescence)

noun:  (physics) The emission of light (or other electromagnetic radiation) by a material when stimulated by the absorption of radiation or of a subatomic particle.
noun:  The light so emitted.

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