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The optical phenomenon, exhibited by some specimens (moonstones) of the mineral adularia, of exhibiting a white to pale bluish or rarely pale orange sheen along crystal faces.
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Quartz artificially coated with metal to give it a pale iridescent sheen.
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Having many colors, reminiscent of those in an aurora.
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(gemology) An optical reflectance (a metallic glitter) effect seen in certain gems, arising from small, preferentially oriented mineral platelets within the material.
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A gemstone exhibiting chatoyancy.
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Changeableness of color, as in a mineral; play of colors.
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(medicine) A temporary swelling on a neonate's head after a ventouse-assisted delivery.
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(of glasses) Having thick lenses.
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The jagged circle in the mid-diameter of the iris, separating the darker shade of the iris from the lighter shade of the iris.
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Having a wavy, floating light; opalescent; chatoyant.
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(alternative medicine) A hollow candle used in certain alternative medicine practices to assist the natural clearing of earwax.
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A kind of circle agate, with the central part of deeper tints than the rest of the mass.
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Containing many fibres - referring mainly to food.
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A small fovea or depression.
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(rare) Pertaining to a rainbow.
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(intransitive) To be iridescent; to exhibit iridescence.
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Any shimmer of glittering and changeable colors.
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Alternative form of iridescence [The condition or state of being iridescent; exhibition of colors like those of the rainbow; a prismatic play of color.]
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(not comparable) Producing a display of lustrous, rainbow-like colors; prismatic.
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Of or relating to the iris or rainbow.
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(poetic, obsolete) iridescent
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(transitive) To make iridescent.
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(literary) To cause (something) to shine with the colours of the rainbow; to make iridescent.
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An iris shot used at the beginning of a scene
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An iris shot used at the end of a scene
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(film) The use of an expanding or contracting black circle to open or close a cinematic scene.
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Exhibiting the prismatic colours; iridescent.
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(meteorology) A colorful optical phenomenon seen in iridescent clouds and on the borders of lenticular clouds resembling those seen in soap bubbles and oil on a water surface.
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A form of iridescence or reflectance, seen in labradorite feldspar and spectrolite, arising from submicroscopical planes orientated in one or more directions.
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(mineralogy) Having the striking iridescent appearance of some forms of labradorite: exhibiting labradorescence.
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a pigment made by precipitating a dye with an inert binder, or mordant, usually a metallic salt
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(chemistry, obsolete) Silver nitrate fused into a stick and used for cauterizing.
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An optical phenomenon in which light is refracted through a layer of hot air close to the ground, often giving the illusion of a body of water.
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Exhibiting lustrous or rainbow-like colors.
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(art) Having an iridescence like that of nacre, or mother-of-pearl.
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An eyelike marking in the form of a spot or ring of colour, as on the wing of a butterfly or the tail of a peacock.
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To be opalescent; to give forth a play of colours, like the opal.
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Exhibiting a milky iridescence like that of an opal.
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Alternative form of opaled [(poetic) opalescent; misty or milky in appearance]
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The colours of the rainbow.
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A mixture of fiberglass resin, metal shavings, quartz, etc., supposed to convert negative energy into positive.
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(by extension) The brilliance or colour of a high-quality pearl.
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Separated or distributed by, or as if by, a transparent prism; formed by a prism; varied or brilliant in color.
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Quartz artificially coated with metal to give it an iridescent multicolored sheen.
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(American spelling) Having many colors, reminiscent of those in the rainbow.
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A fragment of bone or other dead tissue that has separated during necrosis.
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(mnemonic) An acronym used to remember the color sequence of the visible spectrum: violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, red
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(of ceramics) Having a shiny nonporous surface.
adj
Apparently vitreous; having a vitreous aspect.
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The quality of being vitreous or glassy.
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