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incandescent lamp

a lamp in which the light is produced by a filament of conducting material contained in a vacuum and heated to incandescence by an electric current

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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