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Word Meanings - PHOSPHORESCENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Shining with a phosphoric light; luminous without sensible heat. -- n.

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  • CORUSCANT
    Glittering in flashes; flashing. Howell.
  • METEORICAL
    Meteoric.
  • DISPLOSIVE
    Explosive.
  • VOLCANIC NECK
    A column of igneous rock formed by congelation of lava in the conduit of a volcano and later exposed by the removal of surrounding rocks.
  • PYROTECHNICS
    The art of making fireworks; the manufacture and use of fireworks; pyrotechny.
  • VOLCANIC WIND
    A wind associated with a volcanic outburst and due to the eruption or to convection currents over hot lava.
  • PHOSPHORESCENT
    Shining with a phosphoric light; luminous without sensible heat. -- n.
  • FLASHING
    The creation of an artifical flood by the sudden letting in of a body of water; -- called also flushing.
  • VOLCANICALLY
    Like a volcano.
  • FLASH
    1. To burst or break forth with a sudden and transient flood of flame and light; as, the lighting flashes vividly; the powder flashed. 2. To break forth, as a sudden flood of light; to burst instantly and brightly on the sight; to show a momentary
  • FLASHY
    1. Dazzling for a moment; making a momentary show of brilliancy; transitorily bright. A little flashy and transient pleasure. Barrow. 2. Fiery; vehement; impetuous. A temper always flashy. Burke. 3. Showy; gay; gaudy; as, a flashy dress. 4. Without
  • FLASH BURNER
    A gas burner with a device for lighting by an electric spark.
  • MOMENTARY
    Done in a moment; continuing only a moment; lasting a very short time; as, a momentary pang. This momentary joy breeds months of pain. Shak.
  • PYROTECHNIC; PYROTECHNICAL
    Of or pertaining to fireworks, or the art of forming them. Pyrotechnical sponge. See under Sponge.
  • FLASH BOILER
    A variety of water-tube boiler, used chiefly in steam automobiles, consisting of a nest of strong tubes with very little water space, kept nearly red hot so that the water as it trickles drop by drop into the tubes is immediately flashed into steam
  • VOLCANICITY
    Quality or state of being volcanic; volcanic power.
  • FLASHILY
    In a flashy manner; with empty show.
  • FLASHINESS
    The quality of being flashy.
  • FLASHBOARD
    A board placed temporarily upon a milldam, to raise the water in the pond above its usual level; a flushboard.
  • PYROTECHNICIAN
    A pyrotechnist.
  • SIDEFLASH
    A disruptive discharge between a conductor traversed by an oscillatory current of high frequency and neighboring masses of metal, or between different parts of the same conductor.

 

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