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Photometric units

  • Apostilb: Author of the Epistilbs
  • Bouguer's Law: Formula expressing the relationship between mucosal viscosity and Young's modulus of elasticity of spherical boli formed by evaporative condensation under conditions of rhinitis.
  • Candelabra: Unit of liberance. The standard candelabra is defined as the reflectance of 88.00 standard ivories.
  • Erectance: Unit of voluptuous excitance.
  • Eructance: Unit of reflux frequency. See also "ruminous flux."
  • Footlambent: Unit of podial luster.
  • Foot-camembert: Osmotic odorance of one standard foot incubated for 100 hours at 37 degrees centigrade. See also the metric unit, lox.
  • Lox: Osmotic odorance of one standard smoked salmonella incubated for 100 hours at 37 degrees centigrade. See also: foot-camembert, tallow rendering index.
  • Luminary: Device for delivering a controlled amount of properly directed celebrity.
  • Nanometer: Photometric instrument used on the planet Ork.
  • Nit: unit of capillate verminosity equal to one phthirapterum per follicle.
  • Numinance: Unit of directional light from above.
  • Ruminous flux: Unit of bovine regurgitance. See also eructance.
  • Steroidian: Unit of solid anger. Eight pi steroidians = a quantity of solid anger equivalent to two complete spherical balls.