Definitions for iridescence

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. opalescence, iridescence(noun)

    the visual property of something having a milky brightness and a play of colors from the surface

Wiktionary

  1. iridescence(Noun)

    The condition or state of being iridescent; exhibition of colors like those of the rainbow; a prismatic play of color.

  2. iridescence(Noun)

    Any shimmer of glittering and changeable colors.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Iridescence(noun)

    exhibition of colors like those of the rainbow; the quality or state of being iridescent; a prismatic play of color; as, the iridescence of mother-of-pearl


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Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

iridescence(noun)

shining or glittering with the colours of the rainbow

Soap bubbles are iridescent.

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