Incandescent
[ɪnkæn'des(ə)nt] or ['ɪnkən'dɛsnt]
Definition
(adj.) emitting light as a result of being heated; 'an incandescent bulb' .
(adj.) characterized by ardent emotion or intensity or brilliance; 'an incandescent performance' .
Editor: Nancy--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) White, glowing, or luminous, with intense heat; as, incandescent carbon or platinum; hence, clear; shining; brilliant.
Typed by Angelo
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. White-hot.
Typist: Tito
Definition
adj. white or glowing with heat: rendered luminous by heat.—v.i. and v.t. to glow with heat to cause to glow.—n. Incandesc′ence a white heat.—Incandescent light a brilliant white light produced by a resisting conductor under an electric current or by coal-gas burnt under a mantle or hood of the oxide of didymium and others of the alkaline earths.
Typist: Ursula
Examples
- Up to that time he had seen very little incandescent lighting, for the simple reason that there was very little to see. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- In 1845 there appeared in the _Philosophical Magazine_ a description of what was probably the first incandescent electric light. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Among the exhibits of that Exposition was the Edison system of incandescent lighting. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- In a suit against the Boston Incandescent Lamp Company et al. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- These patents may be roughly tabulated as follows: Incandescent lamps and their manufacture. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- A device for sealing together the inside part and bulb of an incandescent lamp mechanically. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Among the early noted inventors of incandescent carbon filament lamps were Edison and Maxim of New York, Swan, and Lane-Fox of England. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Edison devoted a great deal of his time to the engineering work in connection with the laying out of the first incandescent electric-lighting system in New York. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- His face was incandescent in its abstract earnestness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Yet the very vogue of the electric arc light made harder the arrival of the incandescent. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Two shadows of the rod will fall on the screen, one caused by the candle and the other caused by the incandescent light. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Until October 21, 1879, there was nothing in existence resembling our modern incandescent lamp. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- United States Lighting Company), awarding the incandescent lamp to Edison. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- I had a series of vacuum-pumps worked by mercury and used for exhausting experimental incandescent lamps. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- A clear, soft light resulted, and they knew that they had solved the problem of the incandescent light. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
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