stilb

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Word forms

stilb stilbs

Etymology

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

Related words

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