fluorescent

  1. Adjective.  Of or relating to fluorescence.
  2. Adjective.  Exhibiting or produced by fluorescence.
  3. 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.
  4. Adjective.  lowing as if with fluorescence; vivid .
  5. Noun.  A fluorescent light.

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