candle power

A form of candlepower — A unit of luminous intensity of a light source, equal to 0.981 candelas.

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Meanings

nouncandle power (usually uncountable, plural candle powers)

plural candle powers

  1. alternativeuncountableusuallyAlternative spelling of candlepower.

    The electric light system at Paddington is a very large one. There are 101 of these big lights of 2.000 candle power each, 4,000 of 25, and 23 of 100 candle power respectively, […].

    1944 July and August, “London Railway Stations in 1893”, in Railway Magazine, page 201, taken from The English Illustrated Magazine of June 1893
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