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A unit of brightness; the brightness of a perfectly diffusing surface emitting or reflecting a total luminous flux of 1 lumen per sq cm of surface.
Origin: J.H. Lambert, German physicist and mathematician, 1728-1777
(05 Mar 2000)
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