"decimal candle" meaning in English

See decimal candle in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: decimal candles [plural]
Etymology: Translation of French bougie décimale. Etymology templates: {{uder|en|fr|bougie décimale}} French bougie décimale Head templates: {{en-noun}} decimal candle (plural decimal candles)
  1. (historical) A photometric standard formerly used in France, having the value of one twentieth of the Violle platinum standard, or slightly less than a British standard candle. Tags: historical
    Sense id: en-decimal_candle-en-noun-Y7iJHT8j Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English undefined derivations

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for decimal candle meaning in English (1.3kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fr",
        "3": "bougie décimale"
      },
      "expansion": "French bougie décimale",
      "name": "uder"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Translation of French bougie décimale.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "decimal candles",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "decimal candle (plural decimal candles)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English undefined derivations",
          "parents": [
            "Undefined derivations",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A photometric standard formerly used in France, having the value of one twentieth of the Violle platinum standard, or slightly less than a British standard candle."
      ],
      "id": "en-decimal_candle-en-noun-Y7iJHT8j",
      "links": [
        [
          "photometric",
          "photometric"
        ],
        [
          "standard",
          "standard"
        ],
        [
          "France",
          "France"
        ],
        [
          "standard candle",
          "standard candle"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(historical) A photometric standard formerly used in France, having the value of one twentieth of the Violle platinum standard, or slightly less than a British standard candle."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "decimal candle"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fr",
        "3": "bougie décimale"
      },
      "expansion": "French bougie décimale",
      "name": "uder"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Translation of French bougie décimale.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "decimal candles",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "decimal candle (plural decimal candles)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms derived from French",
        "English terms with historical senses",
        "English undefined derivations"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A photometric standard formerly used in France, having the value of one twentieth of the Violle platinum standard, or slightly less than a British standard candle."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "photometric",
          "photometric"
        ],
        [
          "standard",
          "standard"
        ],
        [
          "France",
          "France"
        ],
        [
          "standard candle",
          "standard candle"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(historical) A photometric standard formerly used in France, having the value of one twentieth of the Violle platinum standard, or slightly less than a British standard candle."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "decimal candle"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-20 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (1d5a7d1 and 304864d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.