Usually means: Emission of light by absorption.
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General (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. fluorescing: Merriam-Webster
  2. fluorescing: Collins English Dictionary
  3. fluorescing: Vocabulary.com
  4. fluorescing: Wordnik
  5. fluorescing: Wiktionary
  6. fluorescing: Dictionary.com
  7. fluorescing: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. fluorescing: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. fluorescing: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. fluorescing: Medical dictionary

(Note: See fluoresce 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.
▸ Also see fluoresce


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