Incandescent

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  • adjective. Emitting visible light as a result of being heated.
  • adjective. Shining brilliantly; very bright. synonym: bright.
  • adjective. Characterized by ardent emotion, intensity, or brilliance.
  • adjective. Of or relating to a light bulb containing a filament that is heated to incandescence by an electric current.
  • noun. An incandescent light bulb.
  • noun. A lamp that is fitted with an incandescent light bulb.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Glowing with heat; rendered luminous by heat. Rarely candescent.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. White, glowing, or luminous, with intense heat; ; hence, clear; shining; brilliant.
  • adjective. a kind of lamp in which the light is produced by a thin filament of conducting material, now usually tungsten, but originally carbon, contained in a vacuum or an atmosphere of inert gas within a glass bulb, and heated to incandescence by an electric current. It was inventerd by Thomas Edison, and was once called the Edison lamp; -- called also incandescence lamp, and glowlamp. This is one of the two most common sources of electric light, the other being the fluorescent light, fluorescent lamp or fluorescent bulb.
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  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. emitting light as a result of being heated
  • adjective. shining very brightly
  • adjective. showing intense emotion, as of a performance etc.
  • noun. An incandescent lamp or bulb
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. characterized by ardent emotion or intensity or brilliance
  • adjective. emitting light as a result of being heated
  • Word Usage
    "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."
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