incandescent
An incandescent lamp or bulbAn incandescent lamp or bulb.
» She was incandescent with joy upon hearing his proposal.
Почувши його пропозицію, вона засвітилася від радості. — deniko
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1 sensesAn incandescent lamp or bulb.
Examples
8 sentencesShe was incandescent with joy upon hearing his proposal.
Почувши його пропозицію, вона засвітилася від радості. — deniko
This is an incandescent light bulb.
We replaced all incandescent lightbulbs with new energy-saving lightbulbs.
He eats propolis near the hearth where an incandescent fire is burning.
He's eating propolis near the hearth where an incandescent fire is burning.
Origin
Borrowed from French incandescent, from Latin incandescens, from incandesco (“be heated, gBorrowed from French incandescent, from Latin incandescens, from incandesco (“be heated, glow”), from in- (intensifying prefix) + candesco (“become white”), from candidus (“white”).
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Forms
plural: incandescents| Singular | incandescent |
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Word family
1 related wordsSee also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.