| 单词 | incandescent |
| 释义 | incandescent (ɪnkændesənt ) 1. adjective Incandescent substances or devices give out a lot of light when heated. [technical] ...incandescent gases. ...incandescent light bulbs. Synonyms: glowing, brilliant, shining, red-hot 2. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] If you describe someone or something as incandescent, you mean that they are very lively and impressive. [literary] Gill had an extraordinary, incandescent personality. ...an incandescent performance from Jessye Norman. incandescence uncountable noun She burned with an incandescence that had nothing to do with her looks. 3. adjective If you say that someone is incandescent with rage, you mean that they are extremely angry. [literary] It makes me incandescent with fury. [+ with] Synonyms: furious, angry, mad [informal], raging Collocations: incandescent light His first idea was to replace the incandescent light bulbs with more modern energy-efficient bulbs. Times, Sunday Times (2010) Pernelle jammed the glasses hastily on her nose against the harshness of the incandescent light. A DAYSTAR OF FEAR (2003) LEDs use at least 80% less power than incandescent light bulbs and last 50 times longer. Times, Sunday Times (2007) At this point the oxygen was added, and the mixed gases gave an incandescent light. Consuming Passions: Leisure and Pleasure in Victorian Britain (2006) In the case of incandescent light bulbs, the position is entirely the opposite of that perception. Times, Sunday Times (2016) This allowed him to invent things at a rate of 40 patents a year, peaking with the incandescent lightbulb in 1879. Times, Sunday Times The phasing out of incandescent lightbulbs will condemn a sizeable number of people to darkness. Times, Sunday Times Surely this could cut me a little slack to use incandescent lightbulbs to enable me to lead as normal a life as possible? Times, Sunday Times Amid controversy over the phasing out of incandescent lightbulbs in favour of low-energy ones, people backed doing so by 57% to 37%. Times, Sunday Times Halogen bulbs use a similar amount of energy as traditional incandescent lightbulbs and generally last for less than two years. Times, Sunday Times We added carpeting and incandescent lighting to make them more livable. Christianity Today If you want to read before bed, choose soft, incandescent lighting for table lamps, to lessen the impact on your melatonin production. The Sun Tungsten wire filaments provide the vast majority of household incandescent lighting, but are also common in industrial lighting as electrodes in arc lamps. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Incandescent lighting was often used in areas where blueline engineering prints needed to be posted on a wall for long periods to hinder rapid fading. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They replaced the original wall tiles, signs, and incandescent lighting with a 1970s style wall tile band and tablet mosaics, signs and fluorescent lights. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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