Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventorya unit of luminance equal to one candela per square centimetre
Coined by the French physicist André Blondel around 1920, from Ancient Greek στίλβω (stílbō, “I glitter”).
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- Derivation mentionστίλβωgrc
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