incandescent

<font size="-1" face="arial, helvetica"> <p> <strong> <font color="#000066">Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for December 5, 2020 is:</font> </strong> </p> <p> <strong>incandescent</strong> &#149; \in-kun-DESS-unt\&nbsp; &#149; <em>adjective</em><br /> <p><strong>1 a :</strong> white, glowing, or luminous with intense heat</p> <p><strong>b :</strong> strikingly bright, radiant, or clear</p> <p><strong>c :</strong> marked by brilliance especially of expression</p> <p><strong>d :</strong> characterized by glowing zeal <strong>:</strong> <a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ardent">ardent</a></p> <p><strong>2 a :</strong> of, relating to, or being light produced by <a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/incandescence">incandescence</a></p> <p><strong>b :</strong> producing light by incandescence</p> </p> <p> <strong>Examples:</strong><br /> <p>The attic was lit by a single <em>incandescent</em> bulb, but that was all the light we needed to read the labels on the storage boxes.</p> <p>"Her husband, Patrick Loungway, a cinematographer, suggested that she use an <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anamorphic">anamorphic</a> lens to replicate the look of a CinemaScope film. The wide lens, in conjunction with theatrical lighting that varies from golden glow to <em>incandescent</em> glare, provides the sense of Hollywood transport and reverie she sought." — <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/26/arts/design/jona-frank-cherry-hill.html">Arthur Lubow, <em>The New York Times</em>, 26 Oct. 2020</a></p> </p> <p> <strong>Did you know?</strong><br /> <p><em>Incandescent</em> first lit up the English language toward the end of the 18th century, at a time when scientific experiments involving heat and light were being conducted on an increasingly frequent basis. An object that glowed at a high temperature (such as a piece of coal) was incandescent. By the mid-1800s, the <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/diction