LUMINANCE UNIT

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A measure of luminance

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Hypernyms ("luminance unit" is a kind of...):

light unit (a measure of the visible electromagnetic radiation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "luminance unit"):

nit (a luminance unit equal to 1 candle per square meter measured perpendicular to the rays from the source)

foot-lambert; ft-L (a former luminance unit equal to one lumen per square foot)

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