fluoro

From fluor(escent) +‎ -o.

fluoro (plural fluoros)

1. (Australia, colloquial) A fluorescent light.
   • 2002, Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country, Allen & Unwin, published 2003, page 27:

     She held her grey felt hat in her hand, slapping the flat brim lightly against her leg as she walked, her tinted hair gleaming under the fluoros.

   • 2009 January 25, Dr Cindy Pan, “Living with epilepsy”, in Herald Sun‎^[1]:

     About one in 20 epilepsy sufferers are sensitive to flashing lights, which can include strobe lighting or flickering fluoros […] .

fluoro (comparative more fluoro, superlative most fluoro)

1. (chiefly Australia) Fluorescent.
   • 1999, Julia Leigh, The Hunter, Faber & Faber 2012, p. 150:

     And yes, as he peers beyond a boulder, down in the hollow he can make out two figures in khaki moving around a fluoro orange tent.

• fluoro acid air

fluoro

1. first-person singular present indicative of fluorar

Derived from Latin fluor (“flow”). Doublet of flui.

• IPA^(key): /fluˈoro/

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• Rhymes: -oro
• Hyphenation: flu‧o‧ro

fluoro (uncountable, accusative fluoron)

1. (chemistry) fluorine

From Esperanto fluoro, from Italian fluoro.

fluoro (uncountable)

1. fluorine

From Latin fluor (“flow”).

• IPA^(key): /fluˈɔ.ro/
• Rhymes: -ɔro
• Hyphenation: flu‧ò‧ro

fluoro m (plural fluori)

1. (chemistry) fluorine

• Rufolo, rufolo

fluōrō

1. dative/ablative singular of fluōrum

fluoro

1. first-person singular present indicative of fluorar

fluoro

1. first-person singular present indicative of fluorar

fluoro m (plural fluori)

1. fluorine