incandescent lamp

noun

1. a lamp that emits light due to the glowing of a heated material, especially 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.

incandescent lamp

noun

1. a source of light that contains a heated solid, such as an electrically heated filament

incandescent lamp

1. A lamp that produces light by heating up a filament of wire inside a bulb with an electric current, causing incandescence. The glass bulb containing the filament is filled with a nonreactive gas, such as argon, to prevent the wire from burning.

2. Compare fluorescent lamp

Word History and Origins

Origin of incandescent lamp¹

First recorded in 1880–85