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candle power en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative, uncountable, usually) Alternative spelling of candlepower.
    • The electric light system at Paddington is a very large one. There are 101 of these big lights of 2.000 candle power each, 4,000 of 25, and 23 of 100 candle power respectively, […]. 1944 July and August, “London Railway Stations in 1893”, in Railway Magazine, page 201, taken from The English Illustrated Magazine of June 1893:

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candle powers Number=Plur lexicographic