CANDELA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does candela mean? 

• CANDELA (noun)
  The noun CANDELA has 1 sense:

1. the basic unit of luminous intensity adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites; equal to 1/60 of the luminous intensity per square centimeter of a black body radiating at the temperature of 2,046 degrees Kelvin

  Familiarity information: CANDELA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CANDELA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The basic unit of luminous intensity adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites; equal to 1/60 of the luminous intensity per square centimeter of a black body radiating at the temperature of 2,046 degrees Kelvin

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

candela; candle; cd; standard candle

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

candlepower unit; luminous intensity unit (a measure of luminous intensity)

 Context examples 

It is the amount of light that falls on a unit area at unit distance from a source of one candela.

(Lumen, NCI Thesaurus)

A SI derived unit of illuminance equal to the direct illumination on a surface that is everywhere one meter from a uniform point source of one candela; a unit of illuminance that is equal to one lumen per square meter.

(Lux, NCI Thesaurus)

SI has a short list of base units defined in an absolute way without referring to any other units: the metre, the kilogram, the second, the ampere, the kelvin, the mole, and the candela.

(International System of Units, NCI Thesaurus)

The base units are a choice of seven well-defined units within the International System of Units (Systeme International d'Unites, SI), which by convention are regarded as dimensionally independent and therefore defined in an absolute way without referring to any other units: the meter, the kilogram, the second, the ampere, the kelvin, the mole, and the candela.

(Base Unit of International System of Units, NCI Thesaurus)