Lambert

Lambert
/lam"beuhrt/; for 2 also Ger. /lahm"berddt/, n.
1. Constant /kon"steuhnt/, 1905-51, English composer and conductor.
2. Johann Heinrich /yoh"hahn huyn"rddikh/, 1728-77, German scientist and mathematician.
3. a male given name: from Germanic words meaning "land" and "bright."

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▪ unit of measurement
      unit of luminance ( brightness) in the centimetre-gram-second system of physical measurement. (See the International System of Units.) It is defined as the brightness of a perfectly diffusing surface that radiates or reflects one lumen per square centimetre. The unit was named for the 18th-century German physicist Johann Heinrich Lambert (Lambert, Johann Heinrich). It is used by astronomers as well as by physicists, engineers, and photographers.

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