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Definition: Incandescent |
IncandescentAdjective1. Emitting light as a result of being heated; "an incandescent bulb". 2. Characterized by ardent emotion or intensity or brilliance; "an incandescent performance". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "incandescent" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1864. (references) |
Etymology: Incandescent \In`can*des"cent\, adjective. [Latin expression incandecens, -entis, present participle of incandescere to become warm or hot; prefix in- in candescere to become of glittering whiteness, to become red hot, incho. from candere to be of glittering whiteness: compare to the French expression incandescent. See Candle.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Energy | These lights use an electrically heated filament to produce light in a vacuum or inert gas-filled bulb. (references) |
Mining | Made luminous by heat; white or glowing with heat. (references) |
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Synonym: IncandescentSynonym: candent (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Heat | Fiery; incandescent, incalescent; candent, ebullient, glowing, smoking; live; on fire; dazzling. Verb: in flames, blazing, in a blaze; alight, afire, ablaze; unquenched, unextinguished; smoldering; in a heat, in a glow, in a fever, in a perspiration, in a sweat; sudorific; sweltering, sweltered; blood hot, blood warm; warm as a toast, warm as wool. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | - proclaiming in incandescent glory the myriad mind of Man (Fantastic Voyage; writing credit: Jerome Bixby; David Duncan) | |
Lyrics | Incandescent eyes (Never Too Far; performing artist: Mariah Carey) All suffuse with an incandescent glow (We Will All Go Together When We Go; performing artist: Tom Lehrer) | |
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 | Caption: Edison Holding Incandescent Lamp; West Orange, NJ; June, 1912; {14.610/10} (jpg). |  | Caption: Book Page: Portrait of Charles Batchelor, the First Photograph Ever Taken by Incandescent Electric Lamps; C. 1879; {15.001/53} (jpg). |
 | Caption: Replica of First Edison Incandescent Lamp, Displayed at Reconstructed Menlo Park Laboratory; Dearborn, MI; 1929; {15.510/10} (jpg). | ||
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| "Centennial@Sunset 1" by Igor Kasalovic Commentary: "Centennial and its surroundings at sunset. To have these particular conditions I've used incandescent white balance." |
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Travel | Ecuador | The volcano has been ejecting significant amounts of ash and incandescent rocks. (references) |
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| "Incandescent" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 99.01% of the time. "Incandescent" is used about 101 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 99.01% | 100 | 32,668 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.99% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 101 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "incandescent": electric incandescent centring device ♦ incandescent avalanche ♦ incandescent burner ♦ incandescent cathode ♦ incandescent electric lamp ♦ incandescent lamp ♦ Incandescent light ♦ Incandescent light bulb ♦ incandescent mantle lamp. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "incandescent"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | inkandeshent (candescent, white hot), i flaktë (ardent, burning, flaming, hot, impassioned). (various references) | |
Arabic | متقد (ablaze, aflame, aglow, blazing, burning, fervent, fiery, flamboyance, flamboyancy, flaming, glowing, impassioned, passionate, red-hot, strenuous, sultry, torrid, vehement), متوهج (aglow, ardent, blazing, fervent, flamboyant, flame, flash, garish, glowing, live, lurid, radiant), وهاج (candescent, flaming, glowing, shrill), ساطع (bright, dazzling, effulgent, glaring, shining, splendid, spotless), براق (brilliant, flaming, glossy, lustrous, meretricious, opalescent, prismatic, radiant, sheeny, shining, shiny, specular, tawdriness). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | с нажежаема жичка, накален до бяло, буен (bacchanalian, blustery, catchy, ebullient, exuberant, furious, gross, high-spirited, hot, hot-blooded, hot-brained, hotheaded, impetuous, jazz, jazzy, knockabout, lively, lush, luxuriant, obstreperous, opulent, phrenetic, prancing, profuse, proud, puffy, puppyish, rambunctious, rampant, rank, riotous, roaring, rough, rough and tumble, rousing, rude, rumbustious, spicy, spirited, sweeping, thick, torrential, tumultuous, turbulent, unchecked, ungovernable, unruly, untamed, vigorous, violent, wanton, zizzi), пламенен (ardent, ebullient, fervent, fiery, flaming, flamy, glowing, passionate, red blooded, torrid, zealous). (various references) | |
Chinese | 白炽. (various references) | |
Czech | žhavící. (various references) | |
Danish | varmkatode (hot cathode, incandescent cathode, thermionic cathode), straalingsdirigerende anordning (electric incandescent centring device), gloedestroempe (incandescent gas mantle), gloedenetsbraender (incandescent burner), gloedenet (incandescent gas mantle), gloedende nyudstoedte koks (incandescent coke), gloedelampe (bulb, electric bulb, filament lamp, incandescent lamp), glødelampe (incandescent electric lamp, incandescent mantle lamp, practical lighting, Welsbach mantle lamp), glødekatode (hot cathode, incandescent cathode, thermionic cathode), glødefarve (incandescent colour), gasglødelampe (incandescent mantle lamp, Welsbach mantle lamp), elektrisk paere (bulb, electric bulb, incandescent lamp), afgift af glødelampen og sikringer (tax on incandescent lamps and electric fuses). (various references) | |
Dutch | witgloeiend. (various references) | |
Esperanto | inkandeska. (various references) | |
Finnish | kuumakatodi (hot cathode, incandescent cathode, thermionic cathode), hehkuva koksi (incandescent coke), hehkusukkapoltin (incandescent burner), hehkulamppu (incandescent lamp), hehkukatodi (hot cathode, incandescent cathode, thermionic cathode). (various references) | |
French | incandescent, ardent. (various references) | |
German | weißglühend (white hot). (various references) | |
Greek | πυρακτώμενοσ (red-hot), πυρακτωμένος (glowing), λευκοπυρώμενοσ, λάμπων (ablaze, aglow, alight, effulgent, lucent, refulgent, shiny, spangly, sparkling, splendent). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מלוהט, מלובן מחום, יוקד (glowing), לוהט (aglow, burning, fervid, fiery, flaming, glowing, heated, torrid), זוהר (brightness, brilliance, flaring, glamor, glamour, lustre, lustrous, magnificence, radiance, radiant, sheen, shine). (various references) | |
Hungarian | izzó (annealing, coruscating, flagrant, glowing, smouldering, white hot). (various references) | |
Indonesian | pijar (blazing, glowing, red-hot), berpijar (blazing). (various references) | |
Italian | incandescente (gloweringly, white hot). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 白熱灯 (incandescent lamp). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | はくねつとう (incandescent lamp). (various references) | |
Korean | 백열. (various references) | |
Manx | bane heh. (various references) | |
Norwegian | hvitglødende. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | incandescentay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | incandescente (glowing, igneous), ardente (ablaze, afire, aflame, aglow, alight, ardent, blazing, burning, eager, feeling, fervent, fervid, fierce, fiery, flaming, het up, hot, hot-blooded, hotspur, intense, keen, longing, passionate, scorching, torrid, tropic, tropical, vehement, volcanic, warm). (various references) | |
Romanian | incandescent (candent, glowing, luminous, red-hot, white hot). (various references) | |
Russian | накаленный (glowing). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | usijan (candent, candescent, glowing, red-hot), užaren (glowing). (various references) | |
Spanish | incandescente (glowing). (various references) | |
Swedish | glödande (aglow, burning, fervent, fervid, fiery, flaming, glowing, live, perfervid, white hot). (various references) | |
Thai | ที่ส่องแสง. (various references) | |
Turkish | parlak (aglow, ardent, bright, brightly, brilliant, clear, dazzling, effulgent, flamboyant, flaming, flaring, flashily, flashy, fulgent, fulgurant, glace, glittering, glossy, glowing, gorgeous, illuminant, irradiant, jazzy, lambent, live, lively, loud, lucent, luminescent, luminous, lustrous, meteoric, oriental, polished, pyrotechnic, pyrotechnical, radiant, refulgent, resplendent, sheeny, shining, shiny, sleek, sparkling, splendent, splendid, star, staring, starry, sunny, vivid), göz kamaştırıcı (blinding, dazzling, doggy, flaring, glamorous, glaring, gorgeous, harsh, resplendent), akkor hale gelmiş, akkor (white heat, white hot). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | сліпучий (blinding, candescent, flaring, glaring), розпечений до білого, блискучий (brilliant, coruscating, crackajack, crackerjack, crackling, glossy, lambent, luminous, lustrous, nitid, oriental, polished, quicksilver, radiant, resplendent, sensational, shining, showy, signal, sparkling, splendent, splendid). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | nóng sáng sáng chói. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "incandescent": incandescently, incandescents. (additional references) | |
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"Incandescent" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: incadescent, incandecent, incandescant, incandescents, incandesent, incondescent. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "incandescent" (pronounced i'nkunde"sunt) |
| 6 | -d e" s u n t | iridescent. |
| 5 | -e" s u n t | antidepressant, adolescent, convalescent, Crescent, depressant, effervescent, evanescent, fluorescent, incessant, luminescent, obsolescent, preadolescent, quiescent, suppressant, tumescent. |
| 4 | -s u n t | absent, adjacent, complacent, complaisant, conversant, decent, dispersant, docent, indecent, innocent, lucent, magnificent, nascent, recent, reminiscent, reticent, translucent. |
| 3 | -u n t | agent, aggrandizement, agreement, ailment, alignment, allotment, amazement, ambient, ambivalent, amendment, amusement, ancient, announcement, annulment, antecedent, antigovernment, antioxidant, apartment, apparent, appeasement, applicant, appointment, apportionment, ardent, argent, argument, armament, arraignment, arrangement, arrant, arrogant, absorbent, abstinent, abundant, accelerant, accident, accompaniment, accomplishment, abandonment, abatement, aberrant, abhorrent, abortifacient, accountant, accouterment, achievement, acknowledgement, acknowledgment, adamant, adherent, adjournment, adjustment, adjutant, adornment, advancement, advertisement, advisement, afferent, affiant, affluent, ascendant, aspirant, assailant, assessment, assignment, assistant, assortment, astonishment, astringent, atonement, attachment, attainment, attendant, banishment, basement, battlement, belligerent, bemusement, beneficent, benevolent, bereavement, betterment, bewilderment, blandishment, blatant, bombardment, brilliant, buoyant, celebrant, claimant, clairvoyant, Clement, client, coefficient, cogent, cognizant, coherent, coincident, combatant, commandment, commencement, commitment, compartment, competent, complainant, complement, compliant, component, comportment, concealment, concomitant, concurrent, condiment, confident, confinement, confluent, consequent, consignment, consistent, consonant, constant, constituent, consultant, containment, contaminant, contentment, contestant, continent, contingent, convenient, convent, convergent, coolant, copayment, corespondent, cormorant, correspondent, Courant, covenant, crosscurrent, current, curtailment, ignorant, immanent, immigrant, imminent, impairment, impatient, impeachment, impediment, impertinent, implement, important, impotent, impoundment, impoverishment, impressment, imprisonment, improvement, imprudent, inadvertent, debarment, debasement, decadent, decedent, declarant, decongestant, defendant, deferment, defiant, deficient, defoliant, delinquent, deodorant, department, dependent, deployment, deportment, derailment, descendant, descendent, despondent, detachment, detergent, determent, determinant, deterrent, detriment, development, deviant, different, diligent, diminishment, disagreement, disappointment, disarmament, disbarment, disbursement, discernment, discordant, discouragement, disenchantment, disenfranchisement, disengagement, disestablishment, disgruntlement, disillusionment, disinfectant, disinvestment, dismantlement, dismemberment, disobedient, displacement, dissident, dissonant, distant, divalent, divergent, divestment, dominant, dormant, easement, ebullient, efferent, efficient, effluent, elegant, element, elephant, eloquent, embankment, embarrassment, embayment, embellishment, embezzlement, embodiment, emergent, emigrant, eminent, emplacement, employment, empowerment, enactment, encampment, enchantment, encirclement, encouragement, encroachment, endangerment, endearment, endorsement, endowment, enforcement, engagement, enhancement, enjoyment, enlargement, enlightenment, enlistment, enrichment, enrollment, enslavement, entanglement, entertainment, enticement, entitlement, entombment, entrant, entrapment, entrenchment, environment, equipment, equivalent, errant, escapement, escarpment, esculent, establishment, estrangement, evident, excellent, excitement, excrement, exigent, existent, exorbitant, expectant, expectorant, expedient, experiment, exponent, extant, extinguishment, extravagant, exuberant, exultant, Fabricant, fervent, figment, filament, flagrant, flamboyant, flatulent, flippant, fluent, formant, fragment, fragrant, fraudulent, frequent, fulfillment, gallant, garment, garnishment, giant, government, grandiloquent, grandparent, harassment, hesitant, hydrant, incident, incipient, incitement, inclement, incoherent, incompetent, inconsistent, incontinent, inconvenient, increment, incumbent, independent, indictment, indifferent, indigent, indignant, indolent, inducement, indulgent, inefficient, infant, informant, infotainment, infrequent, infringement, ingredient, inhabitant, inhalant, inherent, inpatient, insignificant, insistent, insolent, insolvent, installment, instant, instrument, insufficient, insurgent, integument, intelligent, intercurrent, interdependent, intermittent, internment, intersegment, intolerant, intransigent, invariant, investment, involvement, irrelevant, irreverent, irritant, itinerant, jubilant, judgement, judgment, latent, leant, lenient, lieutenant, ligament, litigant, lubricant, luxuriant, malevolent, malignant, maltreatment, management, measurement, merchant, micromanagement, migrant, militant, miscreant, misgovernment, misjudgment, mismanagement, misstatement, mistreatment, moment, monovalent, monument, mordant, movement, mutant, negligent, noncombatant, nonexistent, nongovernment, nonmanagement, nonpayment, nonresident, nonviolent, nourishment, nutrient, obedient, observant, occupant, odorant, ointment, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, operant, opponent, opulent, ornament, orpiment, outpatient, outplacement, overconfident, overpayment, overstatement, oxidant, pageant, parchment, parent, parliament, participant, patent, patient, pavement, payment, peasant, penchant, pendant, penitent, pennant, percipient, permanent, persistent, pertinent, petulant, pheasant, pigment, piquant, placement, pleasant, pliant, poignant, pollutant, postponement, postretirement, potent, precedent, predicament, predominant, preeminent, pregnant, prejudgment, prepayment, prescient, present, presentment, prevalent, procurement, proficient, prominent, pronouncement, propellant, proponent, protestant, provident, prudent, prurient, pungent, punishment, pursuant, puzzlement, quadrant, quotient, radiant, rampant, readjustment, reagent, realignment, reappointment, reapportionment, rearmament, rearrangement, reassessment, reassignment, recalcitrant, recipient, recombinant, recruitment, recurrent, redeployment, redevelopment, redundant, reemployment, reenactment, refinement, refreshment, refrigerant, refurbishment, Regent, regiment, registrant, reimbursement, reinforcement, reinstatement, reinvestment, relevant, reliant, reluctant, remnant, repayment, repellent, repentant, replacement, replenishment, repugnant, requirement, resentment, resettlement, resident, resilient, resistant, resonant, resplendent, respondent, restatement, resultant, resurgent, retardant, retirement, retrenchment, reverent, rodent, rudiment, ruminant, sacrament, salient, seafront, sealant, sediment, segment, semipermanent, sentiment, Sequent, sergeant, serpent, servant, settlement, shipment, significant, silent, solvent, somnolent, stagnant, statement, stimulant, strident, stringent, student, subcontinent, subsequent, subservient, succulent, sufficient, supergiant, superintendent, supplement, supplicant, surfactant, talent, tangent, temperament, tenant, tenement, testament, tetravalent, tolerant, torrent, tournament, transcendent, transient, transparent, treatment, trenchant, trident, triumphant, truant, truculent, turbulent, tyrant, undercurrent, underdevelopment, underemployment, undergarment, underpayment, understatement, unemployment, unimportant, unpleasant, unrepentant, urgent, vacant, vagrant, valiant, variant, vehement, verdant, vibrant, vigilant, violent, virulent, warrant, wonderment. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-d-e-e-i-n-n-n-s-t" | |
-1 letter: intendances. | |
-2 letters: candescent, incandesce, intendance. | |
-3 letters: accidents, ascendent, cadencies, canescent, desiccant, desiccate, instanced, tenancies, tendances. | |
-4 letters: accented, accident, acescent, adenines, ancients, andesite, cadences, canniest, canteens, cineaste, decennia, dentines, desinent, distance, enneadic, incanted, incensed, indecent, insectan, instance, nascence, nescient, scandent, tendance. | |
-5 letters: accedes, accents, acetins, adenine, ancient, aniseed, ascetic, cadence, candent, candies, canines, canteen, cetanes, cineast. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-c-d-e-e-i-n-n-n-s-t" | |
+1 letter: incandescents. | |
+2 letters: discountenance, incandescently. | |
+3 letters: discountenanced, discountenances, transcendencies. | |
+4 letters: deconcentrations. | |
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