Opalescence is an English word with synonyms like iridescence or brightness. Below you'll find 3 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Opalescence in a sentence
Opalescence meaning
- the state of being opalescent
- the milky iridescent appearance of a dense transparent medium when it is illuminated by polychromatic visible radiation (such as sunlight) due to local fluctuations in its density and therefore in its refractive index
Synonyms of Opalescence
Using Opalescence
- The main meaning on this page is: the state of being opalescent | the milky iridescent appearance of a dense transparent medium when it is illuminated by polychromatic visible radiation (such as sunlight) due to local fluctuations in its density and therefore in its refractive index
- Useful related words include: iridescence, brightness.
Context around Opalescence
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 0 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 3 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Opalescence
- In this selection, "opalescence" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 23 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, contrarily, critical and main stand out and add context to how "opalescence" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include contrarily opalescence is correctly and of critical opalescence main einstein. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "opalescence" sits close to words such as aabc, aacr and aacsb, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with opalescence
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Contrarily, opalescence is correctly applied to the milky, turbid appearance of common or potch opal. (15 words)
Opalescence was clearly headed at the 200m but fought back doggedly to take the win from a brave Boomer Hall with Piaggio running on stoutly for third. (27 words)
Theory of critical opalescence main Einstein returned to the problem of thermodynamic fluctuations, giving a treatment of the density variations in a fluid at its critical point. (27 words)
Opalescence was clearly headed at the 200m but fought back doggedly to take the win from a brave Boomer Hall with Piaggio running on stoutly for third. (27 words)
Theory of critical opalescence main Einstein returned to the problem of thermodynamic fluctuations, giving a treatment of the density variations in a fluid at its critical point. (27 words)
Contrarily, opalescence is correctly applied to the milky, turbid appearance of common or potch opal. (15 words)
Example sentences (3)
Opalescence was clearly headed at the 200m but fought back doggedly to take the win from a brave Boomer Hall with Piaggio running on stoutly for third.
Contrarily, opalescence is correctly applied to the milky, turbid appearance of common or potch opal.
Theory of critical opalescence main Einstein returned to the problem of thermodynamic fluctuations, giving a treatment of the density variations in a fluid at its critical point.