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Adjective: fluorescent  flo're-sunt or flû're-sunt
  1. Emitting light during exposure to radiation from an external source
    "The fluorescent minerals glowed under ultraviolet light"
     
  2. Brilliantly coloured and apparently giving off light
    "fluorescent colours"
Noun: fluorescent  flo're-sunt or flû're-sunt
  1. A lighting fixture that uses a fluorescent lamp
    "The office was illuminated by rows of fluorescent fixtures on the ceiling";
    - fluorescent fixture

Derived forms: fluorescents

See also: colorful [US], colourful [Brit, Cdn], light

Type of: lighting fixture

Encyclopedia: Fluorescent