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Definition of evanescent in English: evanescentadjective iːvəˈnɛs(ə)ntɛvəˈnɛs(ə)ntˌɛvəˈnɛs(ə)nt 1literary Soon passing out of sight, memory, or existence; quickly fading or disappearing. 很快消失(或消散)的 the evanescent Arctic summer Example sentencesExamples - It was evanescent, fading just as quickly as it had appeared, and translucent to begin with.
- Just as the evanescent electric spark travels up the wire and disappears, we see how transitory our seemingly stable universe may prove to be.
- This parallel love story clearly relays the obvious frustration that Noah felt due to his wife's evanescent memory and his tender love for her.
- However, this sceptical triumph is evanescent, it vanishes when his attention turns to other facts.
- Next to these markers, family and lived events can seem evanescent, fugitive, and unreal, because memories of them are neither ubiquitous nor collectively shared.
Synonyms vanishing, fading, evaporating, melting away, disappearing, diminishing, dwindling, shrinking, fugitive rare fugacious ephemeral, fleeting, short-lived, short-term, passing, transitory, transient, fugitive, momentary, temporary, brief, here today and gone tomorrow rare fugacious 2Physics Denoting a field or wave which extends into a region where it cannot propagate and whose amplitude therefore decreases with distance. 〔物理〕(波)隐失的,倏逝的,衰逝的;(场)瞬逝的,迅速衰减的 Example sentencesExamples - First, the evanescent field decays exponentially at the sensor surface.
- Close to the sphere surface, the oligonucleotide interacts with the evanescent field of the WGM, which extends about a wavelength into the buffer solution.
- I don't want to go into detail, but the phenomena can be explained by Maxwell's equation and evanescent waves.
- The technique uses the unique polarizations of evanescent waves generated by total internal reflection to excite the dipole moment of individual fluorophores.
- We performed laser induced fluorescence imaging by exciting the immobilized MBs with an evanescent wave field produced at the silica-water interface.
OriginEarly 18th century (in the sense 'almost imperceptible'): from Latin evanescent- 'disappearing', from the verb evanescere (see evanesce). Rhymesacquiescent, adolescent, albescent, Besant, coalescent, confessant, convalescent, crescent, depressant, effervescent, erubescent, excrescent, flavescent, fluorescent, immunosuppressant, incandescent, incessant, iridescent, juvenescent, lactescent, liquescent, luminescent, nigrescent, obsolescent, opalescent, pearlescent, phosphorescent, pubescent, putrescent, quiescent, suppressant, turgescent, virescent, viridescent Definition of evanescent in US English: evanescentadjectiveˌevəˈnes(ə)ntˌɛvəˈnɛs(ə)nt literary 1Soon passing out of sight, memory, or existence; quickly fading or disappearing. 很快消失(或消散)的 a shimmering evanescent bubble 闪闪发光但很快消失的气泡。 Example sentencesExamples - It was evanescent, fading just as quickly as it had appeared, and translucent to begin with.
- However, this sceptical triumph is evanescent, it vanishes when his attention turns to other facts.
- Just as the evanescent electric spark travels up the wire and disappears, we see how transitory our seemingly stable universe may prove to be.
- This parallel love story clearly relays the obvious frustration that Noah felt due to his wife's evanescent memory and his tender love for her.
- Next to these markers, family and lived events can seem evanescent, fugitive, and unreal, because memories of them are neither ubiquitous nor collectively shared.
Synonyms vanishing, fading, evaporating, melting away, disappearing, diminishing, dwindling, shrinking, fugitive ephemeral, fleeting, short-lived, short-term, passing, transitory, transient, fugitive, momentary, temporary, brief, here today and gone tomorrow - 1.1Physics Denoting a field or wave that extends into a region where it cannot propagate and whose amplitude therefore decreases with distance.
〔物理〕(波)隐失的,倏逝的,衰逝的;(场)瞬逝的,迅速衰减的 Example sentencesExamples - The technique uses the unique polarizations of evanescent waves generated by total internal reflection to excite the dipole moment of individual fluorophores.
- I don't want to go into detail, but the phenomena can be explained by Maxwell's equation and evanescent waves.
- First, the evanescent field decays exponentially at the sensor surface.
- Close to the sphere surface, the oligonucleotide interacts with the evanescent field of the WGM, which extends about a wavelength into the buffer solution.
- We performed laser induced fluorescence imaging by exciting the immobilized MBs with an evanescent wave field produced at the silica-water interface.
OriginEarly 18th century (in the sense ‘almost imperceptible’): from Latin evanescent- ‘disappearing’, from the verb evanescere (see evanesce). |