[f. next: see -ENCE.] Luminescent condition or quality.
1889. [trans. E. Weidemann in] Philos. Mag., Ser. V. xxviii. 151. I have ventured to employ the term luminescence for all those phenomena of light which are more intense than corresponds to the actual temperature.
1896. Q. Rev., April, 497. Electrical luminescence.
1899. D. Sharp, Insects, II. (Camb. Nat. Hist.), 259. It is remarkable that there should be three successive seats of luminescence in the life of the same individual.
