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incandescent


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noun

Definition of INCANDESCENT

: lightbulb a

First Known Use of INCANDESCENT

1900

Other Electrical Engineering Terms

feedback, fuse, noise, resonance

Rhymes with INCANDESCENT

acquiescent, adolescent, arborescent, Fertile Crescent, opalescent, prepubescent, viridescent

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