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 : --
It is even possible that the responsible cone type changes as a function of bleaching level.
This bleaching flash is too brief for us to measure spectral radiance and therefore compute color temperature, retinal illuminance, or pigment bleaching.
The innovations may be subject to various types of reduction, typically semantic bleaching, morphological bonding and phonological attrition.
The percent bleaching was not quantified and assumed to be 100%.
In most cases, however, we did not care to obtain an accurate estimate of the degree of bleaching.
However, due to the exponential character of bleaching, the second flash also resulted in incomplete bleach.
Bleaching did not occur during image acquisition; however, under high-power magnification, extended exposure to less attenuated laser light resulted in morphological changes within the terminals.
In sum, we have seen how diachronic bleaching results in synchronic layering in the same functional domain.
