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lambert
1[ lam-bert ]
noun
- 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. : L
Lambert
2[ lam-bert; German lahm-bert ]
noun
- Con·stant [kon, -st, uh, nt], 1905–51, English composer and conductor.
- Jo·hann Hein·rich [yoh, -hahn , hahyn, -, r, i, kh], 1728–77, German scientist and mathematician.
- a male given name: from Germanic words meaning “land” and “bright.”
Lambert
1/ ˈlæmbət /
noun
- LambertConstant19051951MEnglishMUSIC: composerMUSIC: conductor 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
lambert
2/ ˈlæmbət /
noun
- the cgs unit of illumination, equal to 1 lumen per square centimetre L
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).
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of lambert1
Example Sentences
Sofi Tukker headlines on June 4, with Hayley Kiyoko topping the bill on June 5, and Lambert himself leading the pack for closing night on June 6.
Lambert’s The Marfa Tapes is the stronger and more startling of the pair.
Lambert, on her own, has churned out hit after hit, but she’s a rare outlier in the genre.
That idea is one of many theories for how life on Earth began, Lambert says.
Or, Lambert says, some women may have fought in battles to defend their children or village.
“But you must have done something to deserve it,” Lambert recalled Bodenheimer saying before he walked off.
Still, Lambert says, he was surprised to hear about the allegations of sexual abuse.
Kelly G. Lambert, a neuroscientist at Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Virginia, studies parenting behavior in lab animals.
Frank Lambert (Patrick Duffy), Step by Step Divorce is hard.
Thankfully, Lambert has not restricted his artistic endeavours to iPads.
You had better go to the Villa Lambert and arrange for taking up our quarters there, if you like the place.
The next day the two English ladies left the Villa Lambert in an open carriage.
Gensonné picked up a lock of his black hair, and gave it to the Abbé Lambert to give to his wife.
He once gainsaid the talent of Louis Lambert, his Vendome school-mate.
Lambert Simnel, who had been crowned in Ireland, received the king's pardon, and was made a scullion in the royal kitchen.
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