incandesce

English

Etymology

Back-formation from incandescent or from Latin incandescere

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɪn.kænˈdɛs/, /ˌɪn.kənˈdɛs/

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• Rhymes: -ɛs

Verb

incandesce (third-person singular simple present incandesces, present participle incandescing, simple past and past participle incandesced)

1. (ambitransitive) To make or become incandescent, especially by the application of heat.
   • 1870, John Percy, The Metallurgy of Lead: Including Desilverisartion and Cupellation‎^[1], page 24:

     It incandesces in sulphurous acid at ordinary temperatures, sulphate of protoxide of lead being the product; it also incandesces when triturated with ⅛th of its weight of cane-sugar, or ⅙th of grape-sugar.

   • 1893, “Electrical Patents”, in Electrical Engineering: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine‎^[2], page 63:

     The receiver is in the form of a hollow glass ring, a circular filament occupying an axial position within the hollow portion of the ring, and being composed of material such as carbon of small cross-section, that incandesces upon the passage of an electric current

Derived terms

• incandescence

Translations

To make or become incandescent

• Bulgarian: нажежавам (bg) (nažežavam)

Latin

Verb

incandēsce

1. second-person singular present active imperative of incandēscō