Look up: incandescent

1. incandescent
   [adj] - characterized by ardent emotion or intensity or brilliance 2. [adj] - emitting light as a result of being heated
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2. incandescent
   one producing light by the glowing of an element heated to a high temperature Category: News-systems and communications • a type of lamp in which the flame impinges on a knittedcup or mantle saturated in certain chemical compounds that are heated to incandescence and emit a bright, white...
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3. Incandescent
   In`can·des'cent adjective [ Latin incandecens , -entis , present participle of incandescere to become warm or hot; prefix in- in + candescere to become of a glittering whiteness, to become red hot, incho. from can...
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4. incandescent
   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. ... <physics> Taylor) Incandescent lamp or light, a kind of lamp in which the light is ...
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5. incandescent
   candent adjective emitting light as a result of being heated; `an incandescent bulb`
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6. incandescent
   adjective characterized by ardent emotion or intensity or brilliance; `an incandescent performance`
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7. incandescent
   (in″cәn-des´әnt) in radiology, said of a heated filament that is emitting electrons; see also thermionic emission.
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8. Incandescent
   • (a.) White, glowing, or luminous, with intense heat; as, incandescent carbon or platinum; hence, clear; shining; brilliant.
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9. Incandescent
   These lights use an electrically heated filament to produce light in a vacuum or inert gas-filled bulb.
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10. Incandescent
    (album) `Incandescent` is the 1985 debut album by Crumbächer. All songs on the album are by Stephen Crumbächer except track 7, "Sweet By and By", which is a Christian hymn with lyrics by S. Fillmore Bennett and music by Joseph P. Webster, arranged by Stephen Crumbäch...
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