Usually means: Emit light upon absorbing radiation.
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  1. fluoresce: Merriam-Webster
  2. fluoresce: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fluoresce: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. fluoresce: Collins English Dictionary
  5. fluoresce: Vocabulary.com
  6. fluoresce: Wordnik
  7. fluoresce: Wiktionary
  8. fluoresce: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. fluoresce: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. fluoresce: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. fluoresce: Dictionary.com
  12. Fluoresce: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. fluoresce: Rhymezone
  14. fluoresce: FreeDictionary.org
  15. fluoresce: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. fluoresce: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. fluoresce: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. fluoresce: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  3. fluoresce: Medical dictionary

(Note: See fluoresced as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (fluoresce)

verb:  (intransitive, physics) To emit electromagnetic radiation, especially visible light, when absorbing radiation of some other wavelength.
verb:  (transitive, physics) To cause to fluoresce; to make fluorescent.
verb:  (intransitive) Of colours, to be very bright; to be so bright as to appear to radiate as a light source.

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