visible radiation vs incandescence

incandescence vs visible radiation

visible radiation and incandescence both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
visible radiation	Yes	No	No	No
incandescence	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, incandescence is a hyponym of visible radiation; that is, incandescence is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than visible radiation:

visible radiation: (physics) electromagnetic radiation that can produce a visual sensation
incandescence: the phenomenon of light emission by a body as its temperature is raised

Other hyponyms of visible radiation include beam, beam of light, irradiation, light beam, ray, ray of light, shaft, shaft of light, candle flame, candlelight, corona, counterglow, gegenschein, daylight, firelight, fluorescence, friar's lantern, ignis fatuus, jack-o'-lantern, will-o'-the-wisp, gaslight, glow, glowing, radiance, glow, half-light, glow, lamplight, luminescence, meteor, shooting star, Moon, moonlight, moonshine, starlight, sun, sunlight, sunshine, scintillation, streamer, torchlight, twilight.

visible radiation (noun)	incandescence (noun)
(physics) electromagnetic radiation that can produce a visual sensation	light from heat
	the phenomenon of light emission by a body as its temperature is raised

Difference between visible radiation and incandescence

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