单词 | incalescence |
释义 | incalescencen. Now rare or Obsolete. The action or process of becoming hot or warm; rise of temperature; heating. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > [noun] > becoming hot or warm chafinga1398 heating1593 incalescence1646 incalescency1658 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica v. xxi. 270 Making no more thereof, then Seneca commendeth..that is, a sober incalescence and regulated æstuation from wine. View more context for this quotation 1669 R. Boyle Contin. New Exper. Physico-mech. (1682) i. 154 The Incalescence of solid bodies struck or rubbed against one another. 1749 G. Lavington Enthusiasm Methodists & Papists: Pt. II 79 No sooner do the Inebriation and Incalescence go off, but a Sinking of the Spirits, a Coldness and Dullness, take Place. 1761 Descr. S. Carolina 16 The greatest Incalescences of the Air, which..I have known take place in Twenty-four or Thirty Hours, were, 19 Degrees in the Spring, 24 in the Summer. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.1646 |
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