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talbot

nounnounattested in dialogue

An mks unit of luminous energy, exactly corresponding to the SI lumen second.

noun

  1. 1

    An mks unit of luminous energy, exactly corresponding to the SI lumen second.

Etymology

After Henry Fox Talbot, a 19th-century pioneer of photography.

noun

  1. 1

    A type of hound with broad mouth and large ears, once used for hunting and tracking.

Etymology

Possibly after a Norman family Talbot

Forms

plural
talbots
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).