Table of Contents

FOREWORD
PREFACE
SECTION 845-01 - RADIATION, QUANTITIES AND UNITS
General terms
Radiant, luminous and photon quantities and their units
SECTION 845-02 - VISION, COLOUR RENDERING
The eye
Light and colour
Visual phenomena
Colour rendering
SECTION 845-03 - COLORIMETRY
Stimuli
Illuminants
Trichromatic systems
Chromaticity
Uniform colour spaces
SECTION 845-04 - EMISSION, OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF MATERIALS
Emission
Optical properties of materials
SECTION 845-05 - RADIOMETRIC, PHOTOMETRIC AND COLORIMETRIC
                 MEASUREMENTS; PHYSICAL DETECTORS
General terms and instruments
Physical detectors of optical radiation
SECTION 845-06 - ACTINIC EFFECTS OF OPTICAL RADIATION
SECTION 845-07 - LIGHT SOURCES
General terms
Incandescent lamps
Discharge lamps and arc lamps
Lamps of special types or for special purposes
Operational conditions and characteristics of lamps
SECTION 845-08 - COMPONENTS OF LAMPS AND AUXILIARY APPARATUS
SECTION 845-09 - LIGHTING TECHNOLOGY, DAYLIGHTING
General terms
Types of lighting
Terms used in lighting calculations
Terms relating to distance measurements
Terms relating to interreflection
Daylighting
SECTION 845-10 - LUMINAIRES AND THEIR COMPONENTS
Luminaires for mine lighting
SECTION 845-11 - VISUAL SIGNALLING
General terms
Appearance of a light
Visibility
Maritime and waterway traffic and lights on vessels
Air traffic and lights on vehicles
LETTER SYMBOLS FOR QUANTITIES AND UNITS AND SYMBOLIC NOTATIONS
INDEX

Abstract

Comprises some 950 terms and their definitions to promote international standardization in the use of quantities, units, symbols and terminology in the field of lighting.

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Published
Document Type	Standard
Status	Current
Publisher	International Electrotechnical Committee
Pages
ISBN
Committee	TC 1