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Definition of Iridescent
1. Adjective. Varying in color when seen in different lights or from different angles. "A dragonfly hovered, vibrating and iridescent"
Similar to: Colorful, Colourful
Derivative terms: Changeableness, Iridesce, Iridescence
2. Adjective. Having a play of lustrous rainbow colors. "A milky opalescent (or opaline) luster"
Similar to: Bright
Derivative terms: Iridesce, Iridescence, Opalesce, Opalesce, Opalescence
Definition of Iridescent
1. a. Having colors like the rainbow; exhibiting a play of changeable colors; nacreous; prismatic; as, iridescent glass.
Definition of Iridescent
1. Adjective. (not comparable) Producing a display of lustrous, rainbow-like colors; prismatic. ¹
2. Adjective. Brilliant, lustrous, or colorful. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Iridescent
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Iridescent
1. Presenting multiple bright refractile colours, typically as a result of optical interference when incident white light is broken into its spectral components when reflected back through several thin-layered films. Origin: G. Iris, rainbow (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Iridescent
Literary usage of Iridescent
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Microscopical Determination of the Opaque Minerals: An Aid to the Study of Ores by Joseph Murdoch (1916)
"After a short time suddenly iridescent, bright; rubs to dark gray. 2. ...
Instantly effervesces then turns bright brown iridescent, rubs clean easily. ..."
2. Annual Record of Science and Industry for 1871-78 by Spencer Fullerton Baird (1878)
"iridescent GLASS. Some interesting results of experiments upon the artificial
production of the iridescent glass of the ancients, so highly prized by ..."
3. Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Literary & Philosophical Society (1892)
"On iridescent Colours and a Method of examining iridescent objects, ... It is to
the above- mentioned varying colours that we apply the term iridescent, ..."
4. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Charles Robert Cross (1861)
"If this varnish be then drawn by the means of a feather or brush over the surface
of some water, it will form a beautifully ¡iridescent pellicle. ..."
5. Outlines of Industrial Chemistry: A Text-book for Students by Frank Hall Thorp, Warren Kendall Lewis (1916)
"iridescent glass is made by exposing the hot glass to the vapors of ... Roman glass
was not originally iridescent, but has become so through exposure to ..."
6. The Heart of the Antarctic: Being the Story of the British Antarctic by Ernest Henry Shackleton, Hugh Robert Mill, Tannatt William Edgeworth David (1909)
"The colours of the iridescent clouds were brighter than in any of the other ...
iridescent CLOUDS, AUGUST 22 EARTH SHADOWS The name is that used by Captain ..."
7. Hispano-Moresque Pottery in the Collection of the Hispanic Society of America by Edwin Atlee Barber (1915)
"Brownish, changing to a dark golden, with iridescent reflections. Valencia (?
... Coppery, with iridescent reflections. Spanish, sixteenth century. ..."
8. The Forces of Nature: A Popular Introduction to the Study of Physical Phenomena by Amédée Guillemin (1873)
"The soap-bubble — iridescent colours in thin plates — Newton's experiment on
coloured rings ; bright and dark rings — Laws of diameters and thicknesses ..."
9. Microscopical Determination of the Opaque Minerals: An Aid to the Study of Ores by Joseph Murdoch (1916)
"After a short time suddenly iridescent, bright; rubs to dark gray. 2. ...
Instantly effervesces then turns bright brown iridescent, rubs clean easily. ..."
10. Annual Record of Science and Industry for 1871-78 by Spencer Fullerton Baird (1878)
"iridescent GLASS. Some interesting results of experiments upon the artificial
production of the iridescent glass of the ancients, so highly prized by ..."
11. Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Literary & Philosophical Society (1892)
"On iridescent Colours and a Method of examining iridescent objects, ... It is to
the above- mentioned varying colours that we apply the term iridescent, ..."
12. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Charles Robert Cross (1861)
"If this varnish be then drawn by the means of a feather or brush over the surface
of some water, it will form a beautifully ¡iridescent pellicle. ..."
13. Outlines of Industrial Chemistry: A Text-book for Students by Frank Hall Thorp, Warren Kendall Lewis (1916)
"iridescent glass is made by exposing the hot glass to the vapors of ... Roman glass
was not originally iridescent, but has become so through exposure to ..."
14. The Heart of the Antarctic: Being the Story of the British Antarctic by Ernest Henry Shackleton, Hugh Robert Mill, Tannatt William Edgeworth David (1909)
"The colours of the iridescent clouds were brighter than in any of the other ...
iridescent CLOUDS, AUGUST 22 EARTH SHADOWS The name is that used by Captain ..."
15. Hispano-Moresque Pottery in the Collection of the Hispanic Society of America by Edwin Atlee Barber (1915)
"Brownish, changing to a dark golden, with iridescent reflections. Valencia (?
... Coppery, with iridescent reflections. Spanish, sixteenth century. ..."
16. The Forces of Nature: A Popular Introduction to the Study of Physical Phenomena by Amédée Guillemin (1873)
"The soap-bubble — iridescent colours in thin plates — Newton's experiment on
coloured rings ; bright and dark rings — Laws of diameters and thicknesses ..."
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