Usually means: Emits light when heated; glowing.
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We found 35 dictionaries that define the word incandescent:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. incandescent: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. incandescent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. incandescent: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. incandescent: Collins English Dictionary
  5. incandescent: Vocabulary.com
  6. Incandescent, incandescent: Wordnik
  7. incandescent: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. incandescent: Wiktionary
  9. incandescent: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. incandescent: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. incandescent: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Incandescent, incandescent: Dictionary.com
  13. incandescent: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. incandescent: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Incandescent (album), Incandescent: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Incandescent: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. incandescent: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. incandescent: Rhymezone
  19. Incandescent: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. incandescent: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. incandescent: Free Dictionary
  22. incandescent: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. incandescent: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. incandescent: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. incandescent: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. INCANDESCENT: Zoom Astronomy Glossary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. incandescent: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. incandescent: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Energy Terms (No longer online)
  2. PhotoNotes Dictionary of Film and Digital Photography (No longer online)

(Note: See incandescently as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Emitting light as a result of being heated.
adjective:  Shining very brightly.
adjective:  (figurative) Showing intense emotion, as of a performance, etc.
noun:  An incandescent lamp or bulb

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