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coruscation

English

Alternative forms

  • corruscation (dated)

Noun

coruscation (countable and uncountable, plural coruscations)

  1. A sudden display of brilliance; a flashing of light; a sparkle.
    • 1837 Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History
      [I]n the dusky galleries, duskier with unwashed heads, is a strange 'coruscation,'—of impromptu billhooks.
    • 2001, Oliver Sacks, Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood, Alfred A. Knopf (2001), 6,
      All of these things - the rubbed amber, the magnets, the crystal radio, the clock dials with their tireless coruscations - gave me a sense of invisible rays and forces, a sense that beneath the familiar, visible world of colors and appearances there lay a dark, hidden world of mysterious laws and phenomena.

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incandescence

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French incandescence.

Morphologically incandesce +? -ence.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /??n.kæn?d?s.?ns/, /??n.k?n?d?s.?ns/

Noun

incandescence (usually uncountable, plural incandescences)

  1. (physics) the emission of visible light by a hot body
  2. the light so emitted
  3. (by extension) great emotion, especially anger

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