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UNIT OF ILLUMINATION

Definition: UNIT OF ILLUMINATION

UNIT OF ILLUMINATION

1. The light of a sperm candle burning 120 grains per hour. Standard gas, burning at the rate of five cubic feet per hour, must have an illuminating power equal to that of fourteen such candles.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Crosswords: UNIT OF ILLUMINATION

English words defined with "UNIT OF ILLUMINATION": l, lambert, lux, lxphot. (references)
Specialty definitions using "UNIT OF ILLUMINATION": fc. (references)

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Alternative Orthography: UNIT OF ILLUMINATION


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

55 4E 49 54      4F 46      49 4C 4C 55 4D 49 4E 41 54 49 4F 4E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

        

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010101 01001110 01001001 01010100 00100000 01001111 01000110 00100000 01001001 01001100 01001100 01010101 01001101 01001001 01001110 01000001 01010100 01001001 01001111 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#85 &#78 &#73 &#84 &#32 &#79 &#70 &#32 &#73 &#76 &#76 &#85 &#77 &#73 &#78 &#65 &#84 &#73 &#79 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 004E 0049 0054      004F 0046      0049 004C 004C 0055 004D 0049 004E 0041 0054 0049 004F 004E

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

55484354249402434646554743483554434948

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3. Orthography
4. Bibliography


  

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