incandescent lamp
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- noun
- /ˌɪn.kənˈdɛs.ənt læmp/
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- But most important of all, I had unscrewed the fluorescent light above my desk and instead used an incandescent lamp to light my workspace—an arrangement I have always made whenever and wherever I have had to spend my days in a cubicle.
Examples
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Furthermore, this model shows that the SPD of white LEDs now being introduced for domestic lighting poses a theoretical risk compared to CFLs (or incandescent lamps that have little blue light).
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I entered the vestibule, bathed in the warm yellow light of the incandescent lamps; the hosts seemed to have spared no expense for this gathering of the minds.
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The bill to rid us of the cheap incandescent lamp over the next few years.
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A new kind of light, The incandescent lamp, is one of the many inventions Thomas Edison would give to the world from generators.
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The ILUMEX project, an end-use energy efficiency project, involves residential lighting in Mexico, which is almost entirely supplied by incandescent lamps.
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The filament of the first Prestel incandescent lamp which I invented was a carbonized cotton thread.
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I'm surprised Big Brother isn't forcing LED lighting onto all of us ignorant, unwashed plebes; they are the most efficient yet if you ignore the fact that they cost 100 times what an equivalent incandescent lamp would cost.
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The room was brightly lit by the incandescent lamp hanging from the ceiling.
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Many household incandescent lamps require regular replacement due to their short lifespan.
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She replaced the broken incandescent lamp with an energy-efficient LED bulb.
Synonyms
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Something that gives light for a room or table
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A glass part of a lamp that makes light when electricity flows through it
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A glass object that makes light when electricity passes through it
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A small glass lamp with a wire inside that makes light when electricity flows
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A light bulb that makes light by a hot wire
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A light that gets power from wires, often from a bulb
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A glass bulb with a thin wire that makes light when electricity passes through it
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A light that uses electricity to shine
Antonyms
How Bright
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'an electric lamp that produces light by heating a filament' is directly derivable from combining 'incandescent' (producing visible light from heated material) with 'lamp' (a light source). This adjective + noun composition follows standard, cross-linguistically common patterns, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would understand the MWE.
Etymology
The term incandescent lamp comes from the simple image of a light whose thin wire gets very hot and 'glows' inside a glass bulb. The word incandescent means 'glowing with heat' and lamp means a light, so the name describes the old-style bulb that makes light by a hot wire.