a. rare. [f. TRANS- + L. calēscent-em, pr. pple. of calēscĕre to grow hot, to glow; cf. prec., and fluorescent.] Properly, Beginning to be transcalent; but in quot. = TRANSCALENT. So Transcalescence, the property of being transcalescent.
1850. Grove, Corr. Phys. Forces (ed. 2), 42. Bodies … shew a remarkable difference between their transcalescence, or power of transmitting heat, and their transparency…. Rock-salt, the most transcalescent body known, may be covered with soot … and yet be found capable of transmitting … heat.
