incandesce, v.
(ɪnkænˈdɛs)
[ad. L. incandēsc-ĕre to become warm, glow, inflame, f. in- (in-2) + candēscĕre to become white.]
1. intr. To be or become incandescent; to glow with heat. Chiefly in pres. pple. incanˈdescing = incandescent.
| 1874 Pop. Sci. Monthly Jan., The heat of the incandescing body. 1880 Edison's U.S. Patent No. 230255 My electric lamp consists, essentially..of an incandescing conductor of high resistance hermetically sealed in a glass vacuum chamber. 1882 Nature XXVI. 357 To heat the incandescing body to an extremely high temperature. |
2. trans. To render incandescent, cause to glow.
| 1883 Sir W. Thomson in Nature XXVII. 278 The activity of the sun's radiation is..sixty-seven times greater than that of a Swan lamp per equal area, when incandesced to 240 candles per horse-power. |