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nouna luminance unit equal to 1 candle per square meter measured perpendicular to the rays from the sourcetype of:
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nounegg or young of an insect parasitic on mammals especially a sucking louse; often attached to a hair or item of clothingtype of:
Definition that contains nit
- caliche nitrate-bearing rock or gravel of the sodium nitrate deposits of Chile and Peru
- pyrocellulose nitrocellulose containing less nitrogen than guncotton; used in making smokeless powder
- liquid nitrogen nitrogen in a liquid state
- sodium nitrite nitrite used to preserve and color food especially in meat and fish products; implicated in the formation of suspected carcinogens