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INTERNATIONAL CANDLE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does international candle mean?
• INTERNATIONAL CANDLE (noun)
The noun INTERNATIONAL CANDLE has 1 sense:
1. a former international unit of luminous intensity; now replaced by the candela
Familiarity information: INTERNATIONAL CANDLE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A former international unit of luminous intensity; now replaced by the candela
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("international candle" is a kind of...):
candlepower unit; luminous intensity unit (a measure of luminous intensity)
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