foot-candle

foot-candle
/foot"kan"dl/, n. Optics.
a unit of illuminance or illumination, equivalent to the illumination produced by a source of one candle at a distance of one foot and equal to one lumen incident per square foot. Abbr.: FC
Also, footcandle.
[1905-10]

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