[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

incandescent \in`candes"cent\, a. l. incandecens, -entis, p.
   pr. of incandescere to become warm or hot; pref. in- in +
   candescere to become of a glittering whiteness, to become red
   hot, incho. fr. candere to be of a glittering whiteness: cf.
   f. incandescent. see candle.
   white, glowing, or luminous, with intense heat; as,
   incandescent carbon or platinum; hence, clear; shining;
   brilliant.
   1913 webster

         holy scripture become resplendent; or, as one might
         say, incandescent throughout.            --i. taylor.
   1913 webster

   incandescent lamp, incandescent light, incandescent
   light bulb elec., a kind of lamp in which the light is
      produced by a thin filament of conducting material, now
      usually tungsten, but originally carbon, contained in a
      vacuum or an atmosphere of inert gas within a glass bulb,
      and heated to incandescence by an electric current. it was
      inventerd by thomas edison, and was once called the
      edison lamp; -- called also incandescence lamp, and
      glowlamp. this is one of the two most common sources of
      electric light, the other being the fluorescent light,
      fluorescent lamp or fluorescent bulb.
      1913 webster +pjc
see also:
candle incandescent lamp incandescent light incandescent light bulb edison lamp incandescence lamp 
glowlamp fluorescent light fluorescent lamp fluorescent bulb 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

incandescent
     adj 1: emitting light as a result of being heated; "an incandescent
            bulb" syn: candent
     2: characterized by ardent emotion or intensity or brilliance;
        "an incandescent performance"
see also:
candent 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

82 moby thesaurus words for "incandescent":
   ablaze, afire, aflame, aflicker, aglow, alight, ardent, beaming,
   beamy, blazing, blushing, bright, bright and sunny, brilliant,
   burning, candent, candescent, comburent, conflagrant, effulgent,
   fiery, flagrant, flaming, flaring, flickering, flushing, fulgent,
   fuming, gleaming, gleamy, glinting, glowing, guttering, ignescent,
   ignited, illuminant, in a blaze, in a glow, in flames, inflamed,
   irradiative, kindled, lambent, lamping, light as day, live, living,
   lucent, luciferous, lucific, luciform, luminant, luminative,
   luminiferous, luminificent, luminous, lustrous, on fire, orient,
   radiant, red-hot, reeking, refulgent, rutilant, rutilous,
   scintillant, scintillating, shining, shiny, smoking, smoldering,
   sparking, starbright, starlike, starry, streaming, suffused, sunny,
   sunshiny, unextinguished, unquenched, white-hot

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