Meanings
present singular third person incandesces · participle present incandescing · participle past incandesced · past incandesced
- ambitransitiveTo make or become incandescent, especially by the application of heat.
It incandesces in sulphurous acid at ordinary temperatures, sulphate of protoxide of lead being the product; it also incandesces when triturated with ⅛th of its weight of cane-sugar, or ⅙th of grape-sugar.
1870, John Percy, The Metallurgy of Lead: Including Desilverisartion and Cupellation, page 241 more example
The receiver is in the form of a hollow glass ring, a circular filament occupying an axial position within the hollow portion of the ring, and being composed of material such as carbon of small cross-section, that incandesces upon the passage of an electric current
1893, “Electrical Patents”, in Electrical Engineering: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine, page 63
Origin
Back-formation from incandescent or from Latin incandescere
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Bulgarian нажежавам
- нажежавам (nažežavam)To make or become incandescent
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with incandesce
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incandesce. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/incandesce
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