iridescence
iridescent quality; a play of lustrous, changing colors.
Origin of iridescence
1Other words from iridescence
- non·ir·i·des·cence, noun
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How to use iridescence in a sentence
After taking the leaf home and looking through a microscope, she was transfixed by the crinkly heads and iridescence of slime mold.
A glimpse inside a gecko’s hand won the 2022 Nikon Small World photo contest | Erin Garcia de Jesús | October 11, 2022 | Science NewsThe prints’ iridescence can be seen as either natural or industrial, a memory of the polluted landscape where the Wrbicans grew up in western Pennsylvania.
In the galleries: Intellectually engaging, visually striking and open to interpretation | Mark Jenkins | October 8, 2021 | Washington PostEven so, the findings have implications for how iridescence could contribute to heat effects from climate change.
Sunbirds’ dazzling feathers are hot, in both senses of the word | Jake Buehler | August 17, 2021 | Science NewsThose structures bounce light off differently at each angle, producing iridescence.
The clothes were dominated by gray, murky green, midnight blue, all with hints of iridescence.
Paris Fall Fashion Week 2012: A Finale at Yves Saint Laurent | Robin Givhan | March 7, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST
Something of this iridescence may cling to unmarried lovers, in spite of themselves, but wedded bliss is a sheer offence.
Questionable Shapes | William Dean HowellsInstantaneously the sun-flooded morning was born, a morning that lost its freshness, its pearly iridescence, immediately.
Cytherea | Joseph HergesheimerAll these species are very beautiful, the rapid movement of the cilia giving them a brilliant iridescence.
The Sea-beach at Ebb-tide | Augusta Foote ArnoldIn color it is reddish-brown, specked with gray, and has a brilliant whitish or opal-like iridescence.
The Sea-beach at Ebb-tide | Augusta Foote ArnoldOn the contrary, its wings had grown to an amazing span and iridescence.
Pieces of Eight | Richard le Gallienne
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