Noun standard candle has 1 sense
  1. candle, candela, cd, standard candle - the basic unit of luminous intensity adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites; equal to 1/60 of the luminous intensity per square centimeter of a black body radiating at the temperature of 2,046 degrees Kelvin
    --1 is a kind of luminous intensity unit, candlepower unit
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