a source of light that contains a heated solid, such as an electrically heated filament
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in′candes′cent lamp′,
- Electronics, Electricitya lamp that emits light due to the glowing of a heated material, esp. the common device in which a tungsten filament enclosed within an evacuated glass bulb is rendered luminous by the passage of an electric current through it. Cf. fluorescent lamp.
- 1880–85
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