Usually means: Emitting light as a result.
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  7. candescent: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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  13. candescent: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
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Definitions from Wiktionary (candescent)

▸ adjective:  glowing with heat; white-hot, incandescent.

Similar:
light, candent, lambent, ignescent, lucent, flammeous, inflamed, fiery, aflame, incalescent, more...

Opposite:
tenebrous, dark, dull, obscure, shadowy

Types:
light bulb, incandescent, tungsten, halogen, fluorescent, compact fluorescent, Edison bulb, light-emitting di, more...

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Similar:
light, candent, lambent, ignescent, lucent, flammeous, inflamed, fiery, aflame, incalescent, more...

Opposite:
tenebrous, dark, dull, obscure, shadowy

Types:
light bulb, incandescent, tungsten, halogen, fluorescent, compact fluorescent, Edison bulb, light-emitting di, more...



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