fluorescent

Describing electric lights that produce light using gas inside a tube and a special coating.

• The room has fluorescent lights.
• A fluorescent tube flickered above the desk.
• They replaced the old fluorescent lighting in the office.

Common phrases: fluorescent light, fluorescent tube, fluorescent lighting

Having a very bright color that looks almost as if it gives out light.

• She wore fluorescent pink shoes.
• Workers in fluorescent jackets stood beside the road.
• He highlighted the date with a fluorescent yellow marker.

Similar words: neon, bright, vivid

Opposites: dull

Common phrases: fluorescent pink, fluorescent jacket, fluorescent colors

Giving out light after taking in light, or describing the light produced this way.

• The dye is fluorescent.
• These fluorescent minerals glow under ultraviolet light.
• Scientists marked the cells with a fluorescent protein.

Similar words: fluorescing

Common phrases: fluorescent dye, fluorescent protein, fluorescent minerals

Related to the process in which a material takes in light and gives out light of another color.

• The lab uses fluorescent imaging.
• Fluorescent analysis helped the researchers locate the protein.
• They compared two fluorescent detection methods.

Common phrases: fluorescent imaging, fluorescent analysis, fluorescent detection

An electric light, usually a tube, that uses gas and a special coating to produce light.

• A fluorescent hummed overhead.
• They replaced the fluorescents in the kitchen.
• One of the old fluorescents kept flickering.

Similar words: fluorescent light, strip light

Common phrases: overhead fluorescent, replace a fluorescent, flickering fluorescent