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incandescent filament.
incapable adj. 1 Often, incapable of. unable (to), powerless (to),
incompetent (to), unfit (to), unqualified (to), impotent (to),
unequal to, not up to: He seems incapable of completing his
assignment. 2 incapable of. insusceptible to, resistant to,
impervious to, ill-disposed to, disinclined to, not open to: He
is incapable of dishonesty.
incapacitate
v. disable, cripple, paralyse, lame, wound, maim, impair,
weaken, enfeeble, enervate, exhaust, devitalize; immobilize,
inactivate, deactivate, put out of action, indispose: Severely
incapacitated in the crash, John cannot walk without the aid of
crutches. The power plant was incapacitated by one well-placed
grenade.
incentive n. incitement, impetus, encouragement, goad, prod, provocation,
spur, impulse, enticement, lure, inducement, stimulus,
motivation, Colloq carrot: The discount is offered as an
incentive to buy a new car.
incidence n. frequency, rate, degree, extent, occurrence, prevalence;
quantity, amount, number: The incidence of heart disease is
high in Britain.
incident n. 1 event, occasion, occurrence, proceeding, circumstance,
fact, happening, experience, episode: A curious incident led to
the discovery. 2 disturbance, scene, affair, upset, commotion,
fracas, skirmish, set-to, Colloq to-do, do: The police were
called because of an incident at the pub next door.
incidental
adj. 1 casual, chance, fortuitous, aleatory, random, haphazard,
serendipitous, unpredictable, accidental, adventitious,
unplanned, unlooked-for, Colloq fluky: Any good that came from
the war was incidental. 2 subordinate, secondary, ancillary,
minor, lesser, non-essential, unimportant, trivial, negligible,
inconsequential, insignificant, petty, trifling, paltry: The
incidental events were not covered by the press.
incidentally
adv. 1 by the way, by the by, apropos (of), parenthetically: