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Meanings of iridescence in anglès
Property in which fine colors, changeable with the angle of view or angle of illumination, are produced on a surface by the interference of light that is reflected from both the front and back of a thin film.
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portuguès
iridescência català
iridescència The visual property of something having a milky brightness and a play of colors from the surface.
Synonyms
Examples for "opalescence"
Examples for "opalescence"
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It gathered Throckmartin to it, clothed him in a robe of living opalescence.
2
The sky was changing from a cold grey to the opalescence of dawn.
3
As they faded, a milky opalescence formed in the centre of the room.
4
The relux glowed, and the opalescence shifted with bewildering, confusing colors.
5
A diffused glow of opalescence ran over every ship-savethe giant.
Usage of iridescence in anglès
1
But it wasn't so much the water flow as the sunny iridescence.
2
He notes that iridescence heightens the value of color in adaptive display.
3
The grey cobwebs swayed at the windows, sunset touching them to iridescence.
4
But the fine gradations, the iridescence of feeling, mocks at verbal definition.
5
There was no sun to pour a liquid iridescence through their wings.
6
Now he's photographing melted bismuth, a metal he prizes for its iridescence.
7
Shining on Lylda's body, it tremendously enhanced the iridescence of her skin.
8
It was absolutely taut and smooth, its chitin a shimmering black iridescence.
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His watercolour on paper must take on the iridescence of mist.
10
The iridescence of her skin gleamed under the flaming red of her cheeks.
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The iridescence of the rippling water over the rainbow-coloured pebbles is very lovely.
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The sun was reflected from its myriad angles and facets in splendid iridescence.
13
In sunlight, her black hair had the bluish iridescence of a ripe plum.
14
They vanished-absorbedagain by the rushing waters-andother bubbles rose in precarious iridescence.
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The javelins of flame shot through it continually, making a web of iridescence.
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Presently the moon became covered by a cloud, and the iridescence died away.
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Iridescence through the time
Iridescence across language varieties
United Kingdom
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