Stilb

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    a unit of luminance equal to one candela per square centimetre

Etymology

Coined by the French physicist André Blondel around 1920, from Ancient Greek στίλβω (stílbō, “I glitter”).

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square centimetre

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