incandesce
English
Etymology
Back-formation from incandescent or from Latin incandescere
Verb
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- (transitive, intransitive) 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
Latin
Verb
(deprecated template usage) incandēsce