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What is a carcel?

What is a carcel? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (historical) A former unit to measure the intensity of light, approximately 9.74 candelas.
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When experimenting in Paris with a No. 3 lamp in a vertical direction, it showed a consumption of 34.6 liters per carcel obtained.
Quintanilla was freed in 2009, after spending four years in the Carcel de Mujeres in Llopango.
In all systems of lighting, save electricity, the unit of light is the carcel.
He had caught the jail fever, which had long raged in the Carcel de la Corte, where I was imprisoned.
The functionary who is called Alcayde of the carcel at Havana confused the men.

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