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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A unit of measure of the intensity of light falling on a surface, equal to one lumen per square foot and originally defined with reference to a standardized candle burning at one foot from a given surface.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A British unit of illumination equal to 12.2 luxes; the illumination produced by a British standard candle at a distance of one foot in a horizontal direction. See
candle-foot andillumination , 1.
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Driven to capture every foot-candle of the limelight, they expound about everything, including how "expoundive" they'll be when in office.
Management 2010
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Driven to capture every foot-candle of the limelight, they expound about everything, including how "expoundive" they'll be when in office.
Transparency 2010
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Driven to capture every foot-candle of the limelight, they expound about everything, including how "expoundive" they'll be when in office.
the expressional 2009
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Driven to capture every foot-candle of the limelight, they expound about everything, including how "expoundive" they'll be when in office.
the expressional 2009
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Driven to capture every foot-candle of the limelight, they expound about everything, including how "expoundive" they'll be when in office.
Accountability 2010
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Driven to capture every foot-candle of the limelight, they expound about everything, including how "expoundive" they'll be when in office.
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Driven to capture every foot-candle of the limelight, they expound about everything, including how "expoundive" they'll be when in office.
Integrity 2010
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Once Candela had learned of the very limited power restrictions that Calvary Chapel's architect was dealing with, they knew that the new DL fixture was the only option for providing the church with near perfect color house lighting, while still meeting, and even exceeding, these stringent foot-candle code requirements.
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ISO 1,600 at one foot-candle illumination, about the brightness of typical street-lighting at night.
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Timberland said the new LED lamps are twice as efficient as the comparative foot-candle incandescent bulbs they replaced.
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