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INCANDESCENT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does incandescent mean?
• INCANDESCENT (adjective)
The adjective INCANDESCENT has 2 senses:
1. emitting light as a result of being heated
2. characterized by ardent emotion or intensity or brilliance
Familiarity information: INCANDESCENT used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Emitting light as a result of being heated
Synonyms:
candent; incandescent
Context example:
an incandescent bulb
Similar:
light (characterized by or emitting light)
Derivation:
incandescence (the phenomenon of light emission by a body as its temperature is raised)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Characterized by ardent emotion or intensity or brilliance
Context example:
an incandescent performance
Similar:
glorious (having or deserving or conferring glory)
Context examples
Together these two sets of data form a complete picture of the process; cold gas fall towards the black hole, igniting the black hole and causing it to launch fast-moving jets of incandescent plasma into the void.
(ALMA and MUSE Detect Galactic Fountain, ESO)
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