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Emitting light on account of being at a high temperature; glowing with heat.
Glowing with, or as with, heat.
hyperbolically. Intensely bright and hot.
intransitive. To be or become incandescent; to glow with heat. Chiefly in present participle incanˈdescing n. = incandescent, adj.