lambert

[ lam-bert ]

/ ˈlæm bərt /

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noun Optics.

the centimeter-gram-second unit of luminance or brightness, equivalent to 0.32 candles per square centimeter, and equal to the brightness of a perfectly diffusing surface emitting or reflecting one lumen per square centimeter. Abbreviation: L

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Origin of lambert

First recorded in 1910–15; named after J. H. Lambert

Words nearby lambert

lambdoid, lambdoidal suture, lamb down, lambency, lambent, lambert, Lambert conformal projection, Lambert's law, Lambeth, Lambeth Conference, Lambeth degree

Other definitions for lambert (2 of 2)

Lambert

[ lam-bert; for 2 also German lahm-bert ]

/ ˈlæm bərt; for 2 also German ˈlɑm bɛrt /

noun

Con·stant

[kon-stuhnt], /ˈkɒn stənt/, 1905–51, English composer and conductor.

Jo·hann Hein·rich

[yoh-hahn hahyn-rikh], /ˈyoʊ hɑn ˈhaɪn rɪx/, 1728–77, German scientist and mathematician.

a male given name: from Germanic words meaning “land” and “bright.”

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How to use lambert in a sentence

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Lambert’s The Marfa Tapes is the stronger and more startling of the pair.
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Lambert, on her own, has churned out hit after hit, but she’s a rare outlier in the genre.
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That idea is one of many theories for how life on Earth began, Lambert says.
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Or, Lambert says, some women may have fought in battles to defend their children or village.
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“But you must have done something to deserve it,” Lambert recalled Bodenheimer saying before he walked off.
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Still, Lambert says, he was surprised to hear about the allegations of sexual abuse.
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Kelly G. Lambert, a neuroscientist at Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Virginia, studies parenting behavior in lab animals.
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Thankfully, Lambert has not restricted his artistic endeavours to iPads.
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You had better go to the Villa Lambert and arrange for taking up our quarters there, if you like the place.
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The next day the two English ladies left the Villa Lambert in an open carriage.
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Gensonné picked up a lock of his black hair, and gave it to the Abbé Lambert to give to his wife.
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He once gainsaid the talent of Louis Lambert, his Vendome school-mate.
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British Dictionary definitions for lambert (1 of 2)

lambert

/ (ˈlæmbət) /

noun

the cgs unit of illumination, equal to 1 lumen per square centimetreSymbol: L

Word Origin for lambert

named after J. H. Lambert (1728–77), German mathematician and physicist

British Dictionary definitions for lambert (2 of 2)

Lambert

/ (ˈlæmbət) /

noun

Constant. 1905–51, English composer and conductor. His works include much ballet music and The Rio Grande (1929), a work for chorus, orchestra, and piano, using jazz idioms

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Scientific definitions for lambert

lambert

[ lăm′bərt ]

A unit of luminance in the centimeter-gram-second system, equivalent to the luminance of a perfectly diffusing surface that emits or reflects one lumen per square centimeter. The lambert is named after the Swiss mathematician and physicist Johann Heinrich Lambert (1728-1777).