iridescence in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

Translations for iridescence in the English»French Dictionary

iridescence [Brit ˌɪrɪˈdɛs(ə)ns, Am ˌɪrəˈdɛs(ə)ns] N

iridescence

chatoiement m

Translations for iridescence in the French»English Dictionary

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English

The pearly iridescence is often visible through the shell.

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Immature birds have a black tail and lack almost all iridescence.

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In addition to simple body colour, minerals can have various other distinctive optical properties, such as play of colours, asterism, chatoyancy, iridescence, tarnish, and pleochroism.

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The fossilized snake-skin had three types of pigment cells in different combinations- melanophores, which contain the pigment melanin; xanthophores, which contain carotenoid and pterin pigments; and iridophores, which create iridescence.

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Female upperside, fore wing: bluish purple, paler outwardly, in certain lights with a resplendent iridescence; costa and apex very broadly, termen somewhat more narrowly fuscous black.

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The hindwings are uniformly grey with a slight brassy iridescence; they, too, have a hairy fringe, which is grey all over in this case.

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Bright blues, greens, reds and iridescence are usually created not by pigments but through the microstructure of the scales.

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It coats the inside of the capsule like an iridescence rippling across the surface of a soap bubble.

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The dorsal scales a layer of dark (indigo-brown) pigmentation just below the surface on each scale that enhances the iridescence.

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Paradox externally appears as a slightly luminescent soap bubble with a diameter of 50 kilometers, with iridescence similar to that of a real soap bubble.

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