Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Emitting visible light as a result of being heated.
- adj. Shining brilliantly; very bright. See Synonyms at bright.
- adj. Characterized by ardent emotion, intensity, or brilliance: an incandescent performance.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Glowing with heat; rendered luminous by heat. Rarely candescent.
Wiktionary
- adj. emitting light as a result of being heated
- adj. shining very brightly
- adj. showing intense emotion, as of a performance etc.
- n. An incandescent lamp or bulb
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. White, glowing, or luminous, with intense heat; ; hence, clear; shining; brilliant.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. characterized by ardent emotion or intensity or brilliance
- adj. emitting light as a result of being heated
Etymologies
- From Latin incandescens, from incandesco ("be heated, glow"), from in- ("intensifying prefix") + candesco ("become white"), from candidus ("white"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Q It's been probably a couple of years since the President lamented the fact that they still have what he called incandescent bulbs in the White House.”
“Yet your people have, as you well know, what they call incandescent lights everywhere.”
“I would guess the filament in incandescent bulbs would be fried by a spike much more easily compared to fluorescent (gas).”
“Swirling scenes in incandescent jewel tones and bold black lines illustrate excerpts from the King James Version of the Bible, which are selected highlights rather than a continuous narrative.”
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“And if you want a really natural christmas tree with warm white light, incandescent is the only choice because of its great spectral quality.”
“One vision of the LED City Lights program is to have people trade in incandescent lights for LED lights.”
“If you’re looking for the latest advancements in incandescent light bulb technology, one place you don’t want to go is to a lighting trade show.”
“She gave him a smile that could only be called incandescent—which he most certainly did not deserve—and strode right past him out into the night.”
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“Watching the program here, those of us with longish memories could not help recalling the incandescent performances “The Four Seasons” enjoyed in both New York and London in 1979.”
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“The package has non-embarrassing marketing materials, and the form-factor of the bulbs is smaller than a regular incandescent, which is an improvement on most of the CF bulbs in our house.”
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