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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
incandescent/ɪnkanˈdesnt/

▶adjective

1 emitting light as a result of being heated.
■ (of an electric light) containing a filament which glows white-hot when heated by a current passed through it.

2 informal extremely angry.

– derivatives
incandescence noun,
incandescently adverb.

– origin C18: from Fr., from L. incandescent-, incandescere ‘glow’.

'incandescent' also found in these Oxford entries:

candid - filament - gaslight - mantle - meteor - nuée ardente - prominence - star - water gas

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