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A threadlike conductor, usually of tungsten (or of carbon), which is heated to incandescence by the passage of an electric current.
Reference: C.I.E.
Please note that this is the term as it stands in the original IALA Dictionary edition (1970-1989)
Contrast
Celsius (previously Centigrade)
Capacitance
charge current
Intensity
Illuminance
Energy
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