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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Having a white-hot glow; incandescent.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Whitening; making white.
  2. Very hot; heated to whiteness; glowing with white heat.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Glowing as a result of its high temperature; incandescent, glowing with heat.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Heated to whiteness; glowing with heat.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. emitting light as a result of being heated

Etymologies

  1. From Latin candentem, from candere. (Wiktionary)
  2. Latin candēns, candent-, present participle of candēre, to shine; see kand- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • michaelt42 The gas mantle, which consists of a gas-jet heated metallic mesh coated with a suitable compound, typically oxide, of metals such as calcium and thorium, is candent at a lower temperature than the untreated metal. The source of the gaslight of the Victorian theatre, it is still in use today for illumination. Apr 13, 2012

  • hernesheir incandescent; white-hot. Jan 12, 2009

  • roseandivy A very candent candle! Mar 19, 2008

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