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candela
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
candela \candela\ n. the basic unit of luminous intensity adopted under the System International d'Unites. Syn: candle, cd, standard candle.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Ángel Luis Ruiz Paz (born 12 January 1987 in La Puebla de Montalbán , Toledo ), known as Candela , is a Spanish professional footballer who plays for Austrian club First Vienna FC as a defensive midfielder .
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unit of luminous intensity, 1950, from Latin candela (see candle ).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. In the International System of Units, the base unit of luminous intensity; the luminous intensity, in a given direction, of a source that emits monochromatic radiation of frequency 540 × 10 12 hertz and that has a radiant intensity in that direction ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the basic unit of luminous intensity adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites; equal to 1/60 of the luminous intensity per square centimeter of a black body radiating at the temperature of 2,046 degrees Kelvin [syn: candle , cd , standard candle ...
Usage examples of candela.
This point was made by Plesser and me, and was impressively put into practice in subsequent work by Candelas with his collaborators Xenia de la Ossa and Linda Parkes, from the University of Texas, and Paul Green, from the University of Maryland.
In 1984, Philip Candelas of the University of Texas at Austin, Gary Horowitz and Andrew Strominger of the University of California at Santa Barbara, and Edward Witten showed that a particular class of six-dimensional geometrical shapes can meet these conditions.
It was Philip Candelas from the University of Texas, and he immediately asked me if I was seated.
At a meeting of physicists and mathematicians in Berkeley in 1991, Candelas announced the result reached by his group using string theory and mirror symmetry: 317,206,375.
Unwittingly, Victor Batyrev, a mathematician from the University of Essen, revealed such an idea through a pair of papers released in the spring and summer of 1992, Batyrev had become very interested in mirror symmetry, especially in the wake of the success of Candelas and his collaborators in using it to solve the sphere-counting problem described at the end of Chapter 10.
Candelas and his collaborators had successfully conquered with mirror symmetry.
Il pianista inanellava pezzi soporifici adatti per ballare a lume di candela, dei quali stavano approfittando quattro coppie, maschio e femmina abbarbicati l'uno sull'altra, senza praticamente spostarsi mai dalla stessa mattonella.