candlepower

See also: candle power

English

Etymology

From candle +‎ power.

Noun

candlepower (usually uncountable, plural candlepowers)

1. (dated) A 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:

  Hokkien: 燭 / 烛 (zh-min-nan) (chek)

  Mandarin: 燭光 / 烛光 (zh) (zhúguāng)

• Dutch: normaalkaars (nl) f
• Finnish: kynttilä (fi)
• French: bougie (fr) f
• German: Normalkerze f
• Italian: intensità in candele
• Japanese: 燭光 (ja) (shokkō), 燭 (ja) (shoku)
• Korean: 촉광 (ko) (chokgwang)
• Russian: канде́ла (ru) f (kandéla), свеча́ (ru) f (svečá)
• Spanish: candela (es)
• Turkish: mum (tr)