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incandescence|ɪnkænˈdɛsəns|
[f. incandescent: see -ence; so in F. (1798 in Dict. Acad.).]
1. The fact or condition of glowing with heat; the emission of light by a body heated to a high temperature; the state of being incandescent.
1794J. Hutton Philos. Light etc. 24 A body..heated far below the intensity necessary for incandescence. 1837Brewster Magnet. 52 Incandescence does not give to bodies the power of coercing the magnetic influence. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. iii. 31 Meteorites..brought to incandescence by friction against the earth's atmosphere. 1881Spottiswoode in Nature No. 623. 547 The Swan, the Maxim, the Lane-Fox, and the Edison lamps, in which the light is due to the incandescence of a fine thread of carbon.
b. transf. Glowing or intense heat. rare.
1849E. B. Eastwick Dry Leaves 195 It was delightful to me after the incandescence from which I had just come.
c. transf. Matter in a state of incandescence or glow.
1853Kane Grinnell Exp. xxviii. (1856) 230 We had parhelia..a mass of incandescence 22° from the sun. 1862M. Hopkins Hawaii 23 The descending lava presented a head of incandescence 200 rods in width.
2. fig. The state of becoming or being ‘inflamed’ with anger or other strong feeling; ardency, fervour.
1656Blount Glossogr., Incandescence, a being or waxing very angry, or greatly inflamed. 1882–3W. M. Taylor in Schaff Encycl. Relig. Knowl. II. 1015 Not with the earnestness of rant or roaring, but with that of fervid incandescence. 1898Daily News 17 Nov. 5/5 An ally prone to velocity..and to sudden states of incandescence.
So incanˈdescency (rare), the quality or state of being incandescent.
1882Dredge's Elect. Illum. I. 153 A platinum wire 18 B.W.G. and 15 feet long was raised to vivid incandescency. |