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LAMBERT

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

English composer and conductor (1905-1951)

Synonyms:

Constant Lambert; Lambert; Leonard Constant Lambert

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

composer (someone who composes music as a profession)

conductor; director; music director (the person who leads a musical group)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A cgs unit of illumination equal to the brightness of a perfectly diffusing surface that emits or reflects one lumen per square centimeter

Synonyms:

L; lambert

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Hypernyms ("lambert" is a kind of...):

illumination unit (a measure of illumination)

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