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LAMBERT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
English composer and conductor (1905-1951)
Synonyms:
Constant Lambert; Lambert; Leonard Constant Lambert
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
composer (someone who composes music as a profession)
conductor; director; music director (the person who leads a musical group)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A cgs unit of illumination equal to the brightness of a perfectly diffusing surface that emits or reflects one lumen per square centimeter
Synonyms:
L; lambert
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("lambert" is a kind of...):
illumination unit (a measure of illumination)