candlepower

candlepower

See also: candle power

English

Etymology

candle +‎ power

Noun

candlepower (usually uncountable, plural candlepowers)

1. (dated) unit of luminous intensity of a light source, equal to 0.981 candelas

Related terms

• candle
• power
• candela

Translations

former measurement of brightness of a light source

Chinese: Mandarin: 燭光 (zh), 烛光 (zh) (zhúguāng) Min Nan: 燭 (zh-min-nan) (chek) Dutch: normaalkaars (nl) f Finnish: kynttilä (fi) French: bougie (fr) f

German: Normalkerze f Italian: intensità in candele Japanese: 燭光 (shokkō), 燭 (ja) (shoku) Korean: 촉광 (ko) (chokgwang) Russian: канде́ла (ru) f (kandéla), свеча (sv'ečá) f Spanish: candela (es)