'Incandescent' definitions:
Definition of 'incandescent'
From: WordNet
adjective
Emitting light as a result of being heated; "an incandescent bulb" [syn: incandescent, candent]
adjective
Characterized by ardent emotion or intensity or brilliance; "an incandescent performance"
Definition of 'Incandescent'
From: GCIDE
- Incandescent \In`can*des"cent\, a. [L. incandecens, -entis, p. pr. of incandescere to become warm or hot; pref. in- in + candescere to become of a glittering whiteness, to become red hot, incho. fr. candere to be of a glittering whiteness: cf. F. incandescent. See Candle.] White, glowing, or luminous, with intense heat; as, incandescent carbon or platinum; hence, clear; shining; brilliant. [1913 Webster]
- Holy Scripture become resplendent; or, as one might say, incandescent throughout. --I. Taylor. [1913 Webster]
- Incandescent lamp, Incandescent light, {Incandescent light bulb} (Elec.), 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. [1913 Webster +PJC]
Synonyms of 'incandescent'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- ablaze,
- afire,
- aflame,
- aflicker,
- aglow,
- alight,
- ardent,
- beaming,
- beamy,
- blazing,
- blushing,
- bright,
- bright and sunny,
- brilliant,
- burning,
- candent,
- candescent,
- comburent,
- conflagrant,
- effulgent,
- fiery,
- flagrant,
- flaming,
- flaring,
- flickering,
- flushing,
- fulgent,
- fuming,
- gleaming,
- gleamy,
- glinting,
- glowing,
- guttering,
- ignescent,
- ignited,
- illuminant,
- in a blaze,
- in a glow,
- in flames,
- inflamed,
- irradiative,
- kindled,
- lambent,
- lamping,
- light as day,
- live,
- living,
- lucent,
- luciferous,
- lucific,
- luciform,
- luminant,
- luminative,
- luminiferous,
- luminificent,
- luminous,
- lustrous,
- on fire,
- orient,
- radiant,
- red-hot,
- reeking,
- refulgent,
- rutilant,
- rutilous,
- scintillant,
- scintillating,
- shining,
- shiny,
- smoking,
- smoldering,
- sparking,
- starbright,
- starlike,
- starry,
- streaming,
- suffused,
- sunny,
- sunshiny,
- unextinguished,
- unquenched,
- white-hot