CANDLEPOWER

Candlepower

Candlepower is an obsolete unit expressing luminous intensity, equal to 0.981 candela. It expresses levels of light intensity in terms of the light emitted by a candle of specific size and constituents. In modern usage Candlepower equates directly to the unit known as the candela.

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candlepower

Noun

  1. former measurement of brightness of a light source


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