0 present participle of bleach
1 to remove the colour from something or make it lighter, with the use of chemicals or by the effect of light from the sun; to become lighter in this way :
The observer waited until at least 15 min had passed since the last bleaching flash before presenting another bleaching flash.
The goggles are connected to a laptop via an electronic control unit, which controls the intensity and duration of the bleaching and target lights.
Thus, bleaching of the fluorescent cells was reduced and alignment of the images was not a problem.
For example, the spectral absorbance curves of the cones are neither linear nor stable (because of bleaching effects).
These are also bleachable pigments, with fast bleaching kinetics in cones.
The interplay of light and heat in bleaching rhodopsin.
In the early stages of grammaticalization, an increase in frequency often goes hand in hand with semantic bleaching.
In sum, we have seen how diachronic bleaching results in synchronic layering in the same functional domain.
