Bioluminescence

Definition: Bioluminescence

Bioluminescence

Noun

1. Luminescence produced by physiological processes (as in the firefly).

Specialty Definitions: Bioluminescence

Domain	Definitions
Medicine	The emission of light by living organisms such as the firefly, certain mollusks, beetles, fish, bacteria, fungi and protozoa. Source: European Union. (references)
Mining	The emission of visible light by living organisms. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Specialty Definition: Bioluminescence

Bioluminescence is the production of light by a living organism, typically by means of efficient chemical reactions involving a pigment, an enzyme, and ATP.

Bioluminescence is used for luring prey (as in anglerfish), scaring off predators (as in railroad worms), attracting mates (as in fireflies), and even camouflage (photophores in benthic creatures like some deep-sea squids).

Various mechanisms can be used to produce bioluminescent light. A well-known one is the enzyme luciferase, which is frequently used in genetic engineering as a tracer.

Compare to: biofluorescence

Commercial Usage: Bioluminescence

Domain	Title
Books	Analytical Applications of Bioluminescence and Chemiluminescence (reference) Bioluminescence (reference) Bioluminescence and Chemiluminescence (Methods in Enzymology, V057) (reference) Bioluminescence in Action (reference) Bioluminescence Methods & Protocols (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Photo Album: Bioluminescence

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Figure 1. H. Fol and E. Sarasin Photometers. 1. 1884 model. 2. and 3. 1885 model. 4. and 5. 1886 model as published in Fol and Sarasin, 1887. Photometers are instruments to measure light. They are used to study how far light penetrates into the water, sometimes the color of the water, and, also in modern instruments, bioluminescence.Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Usage Frequency: Bioluminescence

"Bioluminescence" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Bioluminescence" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Bioluminescence

Modern Translations: Bioluminescence

Language		Translations for "bioluminescence"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		bioluminescens. (various references)

Dutch		bioluminescentie. (various references)

French		bioluminescence. (various references)

German		Biolumineszenz. (various references)

Greek		βιολογική φωτοβολία. (various references)

Italian		bioluminiscenza. (various references)

Pig Latin		ioluminescencebay

Portuguese		bioluminescência. (various references)

Spanish		bioluminiscencia. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations & Misspellings: Bioluminescence

Derivations
	Words beginning with "bioluminescence": bioluminescences. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Bioluminescence" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bioiluminescence, bioluminescenct, bioluminescene, biouminescence. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Anagrams: Bioluminescence

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-c-c-e-e-e-i-i-l-m-n-n-o-s-u"
	-3 letters: inclemencies, incumbencies, luminescence.
	-4 letters: omniscience.
	-5 letters: bioscience, clemencies, columbines, concubines, councilmen, eminencies, isoleucine, leniencies, nucleonics.
	Words containing the letters "b-c-c-e-e-e-i-i-l-m-n-n-o-s-u"
	+1 letter: bioluminescences.
	+2 letters: triboluminescence.
	+3 letters: triboluminescences.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Alternative Orthography: Bioluminescence

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 69 6F 6C 75 6D 69 6E 65 73 63 65 6E 63 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

⁼

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-... .. --- .-.. ..- -- .. -. . ... -.-. . -. -.-. .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01101001 01101111 01101100 01110101 01101101 01101001 01101110 01100101 01110011 01100011 01100101 01101110 01100011 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#105 &#111 &#108 &#117 &#109 &#105 &#110 &#101 &#115 &#99 &#101 &#110 &#99 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0069 006F 006C 0075 006D 0069 006E 0065 0073 0063 0065 006E 0063 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	8	124,375

Expression	Frequency per Day
bioluminescence	81
animal bioluminescence firefly picture	2
bioluminescence fish	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Bioluminescence

Definition: Bioluminescence