incandescent

Emitting visible light as a result of being heated.

Shining brilliantly; very bright. synonym: bright.

Characterized by ardent emotion, intensity, or brilliance.

Of or relating to a light bulb containing a filament that is heated to incandescence by an electric current.

An incandescent light bulb.

A lamp that is fitted with an incandescent light bulb.

Glowing with heat; rendered luminous by heat. Rarely candescent.

White, glowing, or luminous, with intense heat; ; hence, clear; shining; brilliant.

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.