Glowlamp

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Glowlamp \Glow"lamp`\, n.
     1. (Chem.) An aphlogistic lamp. See {Aphlogistic}.
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     2. (Elect.) An incandescent lamp. See {Incandescent}, a.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Incandescent \In`can*des"cent\, a. [L. incandecens, -entis, p.
     pr. of incandescere to become warm or hot; pref. in- in +
     candescere to become of a glittering whiteness, to become red
     hot, incho. fr. candere to be of a glittering whiteness: cf.
     F. incandescent. See {Candle}.]
     White, glowing, or luminous, with intense heat; as,
     incandescent carbon or platinum; hence, clear; shining;
     brilliant.
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           Holy Scripture become resplendent; or, as one might
           say, incandescent throughout.            --I. Taylor.
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     {Incandescent lamp}, {Incandescent light}, {Incandescent
     light bulb} (Elec.), a kind of lamp in which the light is
        produced by a thin filament of conducting material, now
        usually tungsten, but originally carbon, contained in a
        vacuum or an atmosphere of inert gas within a glass bulb,
        and heated to incandescence by an electric current. It was
        inventerd by Thomas Edison, and was once called the
        {Edison lamp}; -- called also {incandescence lamp}, and
        {glowlamp}. This is one of the two most common sources of
        electric light, the other being the {fluorescent light},
        {fluorescent lamp} or {fluorescent bulb}.
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