Usually means: Turning absorbed light into heat.
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Definitions from Wiktionary (calorescence)

▸ noun:  (dated, physics) The absorption of infrared radiation and subsequent emission of visible light

Similar:
incandescence, thermoluminescence, hyperphosphorescence, photoheating, calorific ray, photoluminescence, fluorescence, luminescence, radiative recombination, radiothermoluminescence, more...

Opposite:
acaloric, hypocaloric, cooling, chilling, frigid

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Similar:
incandescence, thermoluminescence, hyperphosphorescence, photoheating, calorific ray, photoluminescence, fluorescence, luminescence, radiative recombination, radiothermoluminescence, more...

Opposite:
acaloric, hypocaloric, cooling, chilling, frigid



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