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incandescent (adjective):
1a: white, glowing, or luminous with intense heat
b: strikingly bright, radiant, or clear
c: marked by brilliance especially of expression
d: characterized by glowing zeal : ardent
2a: of, relating to, or being light produced by incandescence
b: producing light by incandescence
Source : Merriam -Webster
Etymology : Incandescent first lit up the English language toward the end of the 18th century, at a time when scientific experiments involving heat and light were being conducted on an increasingly frequent basis. An object that glowed at a high temperature (such as a piece of coal) was incandescent. By the mid-1800s, the incandescent lamp—aka the lightbulb—had been invented; it contains a filament which gives off light when heated by an electric current. Incandescent is the modern offspring of a much older parent, the Latin verb candēre, meaning "to glow." Centuries earlier, the word for another source of light, candle, was also derived from candēre.
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