Etymology

troland

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Today it means: A unit (symbol Td) of conventional retinal illuminance, intended as a means of correcting photometric measurements of luminance values impinging on the human eye by scaling them by the effective pupil size. Full definition →

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Named after Leonard T. Troland.

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