Incandescent Definition

ĭnkən-dĕsənt
adjective
Glowing with intense heat; red-hot or, esp., white-hot.
Webster's New World
Emitting visible light as a result of being heated.
American Heritage
Very bright; shining brilliantly; gleaming.
Webster's New World
Of or having to do with lighting by means of incandescent lamps.
Webster's New World
Characterized by ardent emotion, intensity, or brilliance.
An incandescent performance.
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noun

Incandescent lamp.

Webster's New World
A lamp that is fitted with an incandescent light bulb.
American Heritage

Other Word Forms of Incandescent

Noun

Singular:
incandescent
Plural:
incandescents

Origin of Incandescent

  • From French incandescent, from Latin incandescens, from incandesco (“be heated, glow”), from in- (“intensifying prefix”) + candesco (“become white”), from candidus (“white”).

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Incandescent Sentence Examples

  • When heated in dry oxygen it becomes incandescent, forming magnesia.

  • Wehnelt discovered that the same effect could be produced by using instead of a carbon filament a platinum wire covered with the oxides of calcium or barium, which when incandescent have the property of copiously emitting negative ions.

  • Practically the first of these furnaces was that of Despretz, in which the mixture to be heated was placed in a carbon tube rendered incandescent by the passage of a current through its substance from end to end.

  • It belongs to the group of metals whose oxides are generally denominated "rare earths," and its history is bound up in the history of the group, which is especially interesting from the fact that it supplies the material for the manufacture of the mantles used in incandescent gaslighting, and also that the radio-active substances are almost invariably associated with these oxides.

  • Cyanogen and its compounds, so far as we know, arise only in a state of incandescent heat.

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