light intensity

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   luminous intensity measured in candelas

   Synonymscandlepower

   Broaderintensity

Questions about light intensity

What does light intensity mean?

light intensity means "luminous intensity measured in candelas".

What is another word for light intensity?

Close synonyms include candlepower. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is light intensity a common word?

light intensity is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.