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Definition of Iridescence

1. Noun. The visual property of something having a milky brightness and a play of colors from the surface.

Definition of Iridescence

1. n. Exhibition of colors like those of the rainbow; the quality or state of being iridescent; a prismatic play of color; as, the iridescence of mother-of-pearl.

Definition of Iridescence

1. Noun. The condition or state of being iridescent; exhibition of colors like those of the rainbow; a prismatic play of color. ¹

2. Noun. Any shimmer of glittering and changeable colors. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Iridescence

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Iridescence

Literary usage of Iridescence

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Manual of Mineralogy: Including Observations on Mines, Rocks, Reduction of by James Dwight Dana (1864)
"iridescence : when prismatic colors are seen within a crystal; ... What is a play of colors? change of colors? opalescence? iridescence? tarnish? dichroism ..."

2. Philosophy in Sport Made Science in Earnest: Being an Attempt to Illustrate by John Ayrton Paris (1842)
"THE CAUSE OF iridescence. If a soap-bubble be blown up, and set under a glass, so that the motion of the air may not affect it, as the water glides down the ..."

3. A Text Book of the Principles of Physics by Alfred Daniell (1895)
"The iridescence of mother of pearl and of objects with a finely-grooved or striated surface, such as butterfly's scales, is an effect of interference. ..."

4. Philosophy in Sport Made Science in Earnest: Being an Attempt to Illustrate by John Ayrton Paris (1847)
"THE CAUSE OF iridescence. If a soap-bubble be blown up, and set under a glass, so that the motion of the air may not affect it, as the water glides down the ..."

5. The Trespasser by David Herbert Lawrence (1912)
"Since the iridescence and the humming of life are always, and since it was they who made me, then I am not lost. At least, I do not care. ..."

6. Manual of Mineralogy: Including Observations on Mines, Rocks, Reduction of by James Dwight Dana (1864)
"iridescence : when prismatic colors are seen within a crystal; ... What is a play of colors? change of colors? opalescence? iridescence? tarnish? dichroism ..."

7. Philosophy in Sport Made Science in Earnest: Being an Attempt to Illustrate by John Ayrton Paris (1842)
"THE CAUSE OF iridescence. If a soap-bubble be blown up, and set under a glass, so that the motion of the air may not affect it, as the water glides down the ..."

8. A Text Book of the Principles of Physics by Alfred Daniell (1895)
"The iridescence of mother of pearl and of objects with a finely-grooved or striated surface, such as butterfly's scales, is an effect of interference. ..."

9. Philosophy in Sport Made Science in Earnest: Being an Attempt to Illustrate by John Ayrton Paris (1847)
"THE CAUSE OF iridescence. If a soap-bubble be blown up, and set under a glass, so that the motion of the air may not affect it, as the water glides down the ..."

10. The Trespasser by David Herbert Lawrence (1912)
"Since the iridescence and the humming of life are always, and since it was they who made me, then I am not lost. At least, I do not care. ..."

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