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What does iridescence mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word iridescence? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. The condition or state of being iridescent; exhibition of colors like those of the rainbow; a prismatic play of color.
  2. Any shimmer of glittering and changeable colors.
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They measure its size and its age by the iridescence of the oil by satellite.
In four large-format paintings, the vestiges of resemblance are traded in for the iridescence of the surface itself.
But first and foremost they have that same magic light that DUNE has, that iridescence that shimmers as you look at it.
Strontium sulfate is sometimes used to produce iridescence in glass and pottery glazes, and can also be used as a fining agent in crystal glass.
Renaissance artists used paints and glazes that got their appealing color and iridescence from nanoparticles.
Rarely chalcopyrite appeared as a thin film on sphalerite crystal faces, giving specimens a slight iridescence.

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