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incandescent

[ in-kuhn-des-uhnt ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

(of light) produced by incandescence.
glowing or white with heat.
intensely bright; brilliant.
brilliant; masterly; extraordinarily lucid:
an incandescent masterpiece; incandescent wit.
aglow with ardor, purpose, etc.:
the incandescent vitality of youth.
Synonyms: dynamic, brilliant

incandescent

/ ˌɪnkænˈdɛsənt /

emitting light as a result of being heated to a high temperature; red-hot or white-hot
informal.
extremely angry; raging

1785–95; < Latin incandēscent- (stem of incandēscēns ), present participle of incandēscere to glow. See in- ², candescent

C18: from Latin incandescere to become hot, glow, from in- ² + candescere to grow bright, from candēre to be white; see candid

To that end, the budget postpones federal phase-out of incandescent electric bulbs.

His bright idea turned out to be the incandescent light bulb, which he invented in 1880.

The lighting industry has rolled out a series of new products—LEDs, CFLs, new incandescent bulbs—that comply with the standard.

U.S. policy since 2007 has been to phase out incandescent light bulbs.

They last far longer than incandescent bulbs and save enormous amounts of energy.

Its a fine large word, and is in my line; it has quite a learned and cerebrospinal incandescent sound.

The yacht is lighted throughout by electricity, there being over 200 incandescent lamps.

On the inside of the spool, or towel support, an ordinary incandescent electric globe was placed.

Pieces of platinum that will serve very nicely for the purpose may be obtained from an old incandescent lamp.

The experiments and endeavors that brought this result constitute the story of the incandescent lamp.

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