"steradiancy" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1954, Alexander Hollaender, Radiation Biology: Ultraviolet and related radiations, page 123",
          "text": "Such sources usually attain brilliance by high current densities in small volumes. The total energy output may therefore be less than a greatly extended source of low steradiancy.",
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          "ref": "1959, United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA Technical Note (issues 3641-3650, page 15)",
          "text": "The geometry of the cone θ and the irradiance at the image of the carbon block were used to determine the absolute steradiancy of the energy in the cone θ as a radiometer calibration value."
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          "ref": "1966, Project Fire Flight 1 Radiative Heating Experiment, page 29",
          "text": "[…] steradiancies seen by the instrument during calibration were between 45 and 55 percent higher than the calculated average steradiancies […]",
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        "The rate of radiation transfer from a surface for each steradian of solid angle in a specified direction per unit area of cross section of the radiation perpendicular to that direction"
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          "ref": "1954, Alexander Hollaender, Radiation Biology: Ultraviolet and related radiations, page 123",
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          "text": "The geometry of the cone θ and the irradiance at the image of the carbon block were used to determine the absolute steradiancy of the energy in the cone θ as a radiometer calibration value."
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