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  • verb Present participle of incandesce.

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Examples

  • There are cancer patients out there incandescing with pain, and toddlers starving to death and someone somewhere is deciding to load a pistol and use it.

    Memory Wall Anthony Doerr 2010

  • There are cancer patients out there incandescing with pain, and toddlers starving to death and someone somewhere is deciding to load a pistol and use it.

    Memory Wall Anthony Doerr 2010

  • An artificial compound of one kind or another has indeed been universally adopted for the purpose by all manufacturers; hence the incandescing conductors in all carbon-filament lamps of the present day are made in that way.

    Edison, His Life and Inventions, vol. 1 1910

  • An artificial compound of one kind or another has indeed been universally adopted for the purpose by all manufacturers; hence the incandescing conductors in all carbon-filament lamps of the present day are made in that way.

    Edison, His Life and Inventions Frank Lewis Dyer 1905

  • In his earliest consideration of the problem of subdividing the electric current, he had decided that the only possible solution lay in the employment of a lamp whose incandescing body should have a high resistance combined with a small radiating surface, and be capable of being used in what is called

    Edison, His Life and Inventions Frank Lewis Dyer 1905

  • Its only fault is that it is easily fusible, and, therefore, its distance from the incandescing body should be properly estimated.

    Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency Nikola Tesla 1899

  • These incandescing orbs are so many points of interrogation suspended above our heads in the inaccessible depths of space ....

    Astronomy for Amateurs Camille Flammarion 1883

  • In his earliest consideration of the problem of subdividing the electric current, he had decided that the only possible solution lay in the employment of a lamp whose incandescing body should have a high resistance combined with a small radiating surface, and be capable of being used in what is called ` ` multiple arc, '' so that each unit, or lamp, could be turned on or off without interfering with any other unit or lamp.

    Edison, His Life and Inventions, vol. 1 1910

  • _slender_ support, for it is evident that in order to confine the heat more completely to the incandescing body its support should be very thin, so as to carry away the smallest possible amount of heat by conduction.

    Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency Nikola Tesla 1899

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