About The Word Incandescent
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Incandescent
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What's The Definition Of Incandescent?
[adj] emitting light as a result of being heated; "an incandescent bulb"
[adj] characterized by ardent emotion or intensity or brilliance; "an incandescent performance" Synonyms | Synonyms for Incandescent: candent | glorious | light Related Terms | Find terms related to Incandescent: ablaze | afire | aflame | aflicker | aglow | alight | ardent | beaming | beamy | blazing | blushing | bright | bright and sunny | brilliant | burning | candent | candescent | comburent | conflagrant | effulgent | fiery | flagrant | flaming | flaring | flickering | flushing | fulgent | fuming | gleaming | gleamy | glinting | glowing | guttering | ignescent | ignited | illuminant | in a blaze | in a glow | in flames | inflamed | irradiative | kindled | lambent | lamping | light as day | live | living | lucent | luciferous | lucific | luciform | luminant | luminative | luminiferous | luminificent | luminous | lustrous | on fire | orient | radiant | red-hot | reeking | refulgent | rutilant | rutilous | scintillant | scintillating | shining | shiny | smoking | smoldering | sparking | starbright | starlike | starry | streaming | suffused | sunny | sunshiny | unextinguished | unquenched | white-hot See Also | Incandescent In Webster's Dictionary \In`can*des"cent\, a. [L. incandecens, -entis, p.
pr. of incandescere to become warm or hot; pref. in- in +
candescere to become of a glittering whiteness, to become red
hot, incho. fr. candere to be of a glittering whiteness: cf.
F. incandescent. See {Candle}.]
White, glowing, or luminous, with intense heat; as,
incandescent carbon or platinum; hence, clear; shining;
brilliant.
Holy Scripture become resplendent; or, as one might
say, incandescent throughout. --I. Taylor.
{Incandescent lamp} or {light} (Elec.), a kind of lamp in
which the light is produced by a thin filament of
conducting material, usually carbon
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