Term Gallery logo

Meanings of incandescence in English

Portuguese
incandescência
Catalan
incandescència

The phenomenon of light emission by a body as its temperature is raised.

incandescência
Russian
белое каление
Portuguese
incandescência
Spanish
incandescencia
Catalan
incandescent

Emission of electromagnetic radiation (including visible light) from a hot body as a result of its temperature.

Related terms
белое каление
Usage of incandescence in English
1
Only the incandescence of the metal and the flame itself were visible.
The Black Star Passes
2
These wandering bodies carry in themselves the principle of their own incandescence.
The Moon-Voyage
3
The garden where Nedda definitely was not present became bathed in incandescence.
The Pirates of Ersatz
4
Arsenic and antimony in powder combine with this gaseous body with incandescence.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 561, October 2, 1886
5
A flaming speck of pure incandescence sped from the yacht through emptiness.
The Pirates of Ersatz
6
This time the carbon strip burned at incandescence for about eight minutes.
Edison: His Life and Inventions
7
Scarcely visible, the air about him blazed with bluish incandescence of ionization.
Invaders from the Infinite
8
Sophie opened her mouth and screamed, her aura blazing with silver incandescence.
The Alchemyst
9
Another of the Black Lightnings vanished in a white flare of incandescence.
Earth strike: star carrier: book one
10
Then the dot of blue- astringof incandescence; just as had been spoken.
The Blind Spot
11
Bright-eyed and furious, the south London quintet are a picture of youthful incandescence.
The Irish Times
12
Her arms were outstretched to the dimming form of Harry and the incandescence.
The Blind Spot
13
The incandescence, so to call it, was on the left side.
An Old Maid
14
There were tiny shifts in the air, intervals of greater and lesser incandescence.
Flesh and blood
15
Whatever it touched fused instantly into a brilliantly glowing mass of liquid incandescence.
The Black Star Passes
16
He gave it a series of rapid shakes, and it flared into incandescence.
The lies of locke lamora
About this term
More collocations
Translations for incandescence
Portuguese
incandescência
Incandescence through the time
Incandescence across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common