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UK
/ˌɛvənˈɛsənt/
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[ US /ˌɛvəˈnɛsənt/ ]
[ US /ˌɛvəˈnɛsənt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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tending to vanish like vapor
evanescent beauty
How To Use evanescent In A Sentence
- But Mr. Erwitt also has a gift for clicking off multiple photographs of a single scene, finding and preserving evanescent moments likely to leave the viewer alternately laughing or enrapt. Photo-Op: Head or Tail
- Thallus of very minute inconspicuous and evanescent, brown-black granules; apothecia minute, 0.2 to 0.4 mm. in diameter, adnate, dark brown to black, scattered or clustered, plain with a thin concolorous exciple visible, to convex with the exciple finally covered; hypothecium dark brown; hymenium pale brown; asci clavate; paraphyses coherent-indistinct; spores oblong-ellipsoid, 9 to 15 mic. long and 5 to Ohio Biological Survey, Bull. 10, Vol. 11, No. 6 The Ascomycetes of Ohio IV and V
- Slowly the edge parted and flattened out, broadwise, displaying the marbled brilliance of the butterfly's inner wings, illumining the pale chastity of the sleeping figure as if with a quivering and evanescent jewel. Success A Novel
- The evanescent post - war economic boom was quickly followed by a deep recession.
- I don't want to go into detail, but the phenomena can be explained by Maxwell's equation and evanescent waves.
- We performed laser induced fluorescence imaging by exciting the immobilized MBs with an evanescent wave field produced at the silica-water interface.
- Sometimes I'll describe it as an evanescent delusion, sometimes as a centuries-old tradition established with surprising firmness.
- Tatiana exuded a porous, evanescent, yet everlasting warmth; her very presence, her satin face in his palm made his back hurt less. THE BRONZE HORSEMAN
- They came to him evanescently, and left without leaving a trace in his memory - so brief and so quick.
- Strassler proposed referring to the subatomic particle as "the evanescent yet essential Higgs boson. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion