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candlepower::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | light intensity |
| Type of | intensity, intensity level, strength |
Examples of candlepower
candlepower
Neither Easterbrook nor Posner is shy about displaying intellectual candlepower.
From the washingtonpost.com
Candlepower and lumens are the most commonly used terms for rating brightness.
From the newsobserver.com
Each of these variables contributed to the estimate of the star's remarkable candlepower.
From the sciencedaily.com
One of the best-known of these was the English standard of candlepower.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The value of the new unit was chosen to make it similar to the earlier unit candlepower.
From the en.wikipedia.org
It would be like trying to see a candle burning next to the beam of a million-candlepower searchlight.
From the time.com
Intense gazes of a much brighter, and harsher, candlepower are at the core of Keys'performance as June.
From the thenewstribune.com
Night crawling is just fine if you have the candlepower.
From the pe.com
Fortunately, he was close enough to home to go grab a light with substantially more candlepower so he could find his deer.
From the timesunion.com
- Luminous intensity measured in candelas
- Candlepower (abbreviated as cp) is a now-obsolete unit which was used to express 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.
- Candlepower is a measurement of light intensity. It is used as a measurement of beam intensity at various angles from reflector lamps or fixtures.
- Describes the light intensity of a lamp in a certain direction.
- An obsolete term for luminous intensity; current practice is to refer to this simply as candelas. See Candela. For miniature lamps, the rating shown is the mean spherical candlepower produced at design voltage. ...
- The unit measure of incident light.
