Lighting vs Illuminance - What's the difference?
lighting | illuminance |
The equipment used to provide illumination; the illumination so provided.
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, title= The act of activating such equipment, or of igniting a flame etc.
* 2012 , Andrew Pessin, Uncommon Sense (page 142)
The process of annealing metals.
(Webster 1913)
(physics) The luminous flux incident on unit area of a surface; measured in lux or lumens
As nouns the difference between lighting and illuminance
is that lighting is the equipment used to provide illumination; the illumination so provided while illuminance is (physics) the luminous flux incident on unit area of a surface; measured in lux or lumens.lighting
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(wikipedia lighting) (en noun)Yesterday’s fuel, passage=The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania.
- We've observed plenty of strikings followed by lightings , so even if we should not say that the strikings cause the lightings, isn't it at least reasonable to predict, and to believe, that the next time we strike a match in similar conditions, it will be followed by a lighting?
