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foot-can·dle (ftkndl)
n. Abbr. fc or ft-c
A unit of measure of the intensity of light falling on a surface, equal to one lumen per square foot and originally defined with reference to a standardized candle burning at one foot from a given surface.


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This LEDtronics flashlight operates for up to 73 hours on three standard AA batteries, providing 1000 foot-candles of white light from the 1-Watt Luxeon LEDs.
By changing that, we were able to get the foot-candles up to 25.
The court found that lighting in each death row cell was less than twenty foot-candles, in violation of the constitutional rights of the class members.
 
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