Usually means: Emission of light without heat.
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General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. luminescence: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. luminescence: Merriam-Webster
  3. luminescence: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. luminescence: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. luminescence: Collins English Dictionary
  6. luminescence: Vocabulary.com
  7. Luminescence, luminescence: Wordnik
  8. luminescence: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. luminescence: Wiktionary
  10. luminescence: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. luminescence: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. luminescence: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. luminescence: Dictionary.com
  14. Luminescence (album), Luminescence (disambiguation), Luminescence (journal), Luminescence, Luminescence: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. luminescence: Rhymezone
  16. luminescence: FreeDictionary.org
  17. luminescence: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. luminescence: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. luminescence: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. luminescence: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. luminescence: Medical dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Luminescence: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  2. Luminescence: Extragalactic Astronomy

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)

(Note: See luminescences as well.)

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noun:  (physics) Any emission of light that cannot be attributed merely to the temperature of the emitting body.

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