foot-candle

US:USA pronunciation: respellingUSA pronunciation: respelling(fŏŏt′kan′dl)


WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026
foot-can•dle  (fŏŏt′kan′dl),USA pronunciation n. [Optics.]
  1. Opticsa unit of illuminance or illumination, equivalent to the illumination produced by a source of one candle at a distance of one foot and equal to one lumen incident per square foot. Abbr.: FC
 Also, foot′can′dle. 
  • 1905–10

'foot-candle' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
lux - FC - foot-lambert

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