Incalescence
21heat — [n1] high temperature calefaction, calidity, dog days*, fever, fieriness, heatwave, hotness, hot spell, hot weather, incalescence, incandescence, sultriness, swelter, torridity, torridness, warmness, warmth; concept 610 Ant. cold, cool heat [n2]… …
22temperature — [n] hotness, coldness of some degree body heat, calefaction, climate, cold, condition, degrees, febricity, feverishness, heat, incalescence, pyrexia, thermal reading, warmth; concept 610 …
23incalescent — a. becoming warm or warmer. ♦ incalescence, ♦ incalescency, n …
24incalescent — [in΄kə les′ənt] adj. [L incalescens: see IN 1 & CALESCENT] Rare becoming hotter incalescence n …
25calefaction — noun the property of being warming • Syn: ↑incalescence • Hypernyms: ↑hotness, ↑heat, ↑high temperature …
26high temperature — noun the presence of heat (Freq. 2) • Syn: ↑hotness, ↑heat • Ant: ↑coldness (for: ↑hotness) • Derivationally related forms: ↑ …
27hotness — noun 1. the presence of heat (Freq. 1) • Syn: ↑heat, ↑high temperature • Ant: ↑coldness • Derivationally related forms: ↑heat (for: ↑ …
