overglow
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overglow (third-person singular simple present overglows, present participle overglowing, simple past and past participle overglowed)
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overglow (countable and uncountable, plural overglows)
- The glow of light appearing above or surrounding an object; halation
- The state of excessive glowing.
- 1917, Lafcadio Hearn, Exotics and Retrospectives[1], Little, Brown, and Company, page 256:
- The very color itself would make appeal to special kinds of inherited feelings, simply because of its relation to awful spectacles, —the glare of the volcano-summit, the furious vermilion of lava, the raging of forest-fires, the overglow of cities kindling in the track of war, the smouldering of ruin, the blazing of funeral-pyres. And in this lurid race-memory of fire as destroyer, —as the " ravening ghost" of Northern fancy,—there would mingle a vague distress evolved through ancestral experience of crimson heat in rdation to pain, — an organic horror. And the like tremendous color in celestial phenomena would revive also inherited terror related of old to ideas of the portentous and of the wrath of gods.
- 1987, Frank D. Shepard, Sign Legibility for Modified Messages[2], Virginia Transportation Research Council, page 3:
- Studies have shown that because of overglow, or irradiation, at night, the lettering of signs fabricated with encaspulated lens sheeting appears to be narrower; consequently, it lose some of its legibility.
- 1988, Jim King, Hope Can't Come[3], Castle Press, page 142:
- That was unusual for Atlanta. Normally, it was hard to see all the stars through the overglow of the lights, even on a dark night like tonight. Must be a new moon.