Usually means: Emission of light from heat.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word incandescence:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. incandescence: Merriam-Webster
  2. incandescence: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. incandescence: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. incandescence: Collins English Dictionary
  5. incandescence: Vocabulary.com
  6. Incandescence, incandescence: Wordnik
  7. incandescence: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. incandescence: Wiktionary
  9. incandescence: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. incandescence: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. incandescence: Dictionary.com
  12. Incandescence (novel), Incandescence: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Incandescence: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. incandescence: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. incandescence: Rhymezone
  16. Incandescence: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. incandescence: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. incandescence: FreeDictionary.org
  19. incandescence: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. incandescence: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. incandescence: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary

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  1. incandescence: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. incandescence: Medical dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. incandescence: Electronics

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Definitions from Wiktionary (incandescence)

noun:  (physics) the emission of visible light by a hot body
noun:  the light so emitted
noun:  (by extension) great emotion, especially anger

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