Usually means: Emits light when exposed to radiation.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word fluorescent:

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

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fluorescent: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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  3. fluorescent: Medical dictionary

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

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. PhotoNotes Dictionary of Film and Digital Photography (No longer online)

(Note: See fluorescents as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Of or relating to fluorescence.
adjective:  Exhibiting or produced by fluorescence.
adjective:  Emitting visible light as a result of the excitation of phosphors by ultraviolet photons produced by the passage of an electrical current through an inert gas infused with mercury.
adjective:  Vivid, as if fluorescing; neon.
noun:  A fluorescent light.

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