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Candle power
Also known as: candlepower or bougie. It can be abbreviated as cp.
A unit for measuring the quantity of light. It expresses levels of light intensity in terms of the light emitted by a candle of specific size and constituents. In modern usage Candlepower equates directly to the unit known as the candela.
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