candle power
- a variation of candlepower.
Example Sentences
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Sports have intense candle power, and have as a result been host to closely examined, and occasionally punished, speech.
From Economist ● May 30, 2018
This article is a guide to the opportunities that await students who who have the candle power and motivation to learn and put knowledge to work.
From Forbes ● Nov. 30, 2014
Incandescent acetylene lights of 5,000,000 candle power will flash at intermediate points, 22 miles apart and every field will also have all obstacles illuminated, floodlights for the actual landing, and illuminated wind vanes.
From Time Magazine Archive
In fact, the cameras produce adequate close-in pictures even when the only lighting is the candle power of a lit-up birthday cake.
From Time Magazine Archive
The oxygen pipe necessary to carry the gas under pressure need not exceed an inch and a half in diameter to supply 5,000 lamps of 2,000 candle power each.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 633, February 18, 1888 by Various
