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Lang⋅ley

  [lang-lee]
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–noun
1. Edmund of. York, Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of.
2. Samuel Pier⋅pont  [peer-pont] , 1834–1906, U.S. astronomer, physicist, and pioneer in aeronautics.
3. William. Langland, William.
4. a city in SW British Columbia, in SW Canada, near Vancouver. 15,124.
5. Mount, a mountain in E California, in the Sierra Nevada. 14,025 ft. (4280 m).
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lang⋅ley

  [lang-lee]
–noun Physics.
for electromagnetic radiation incident upon a surface, a value of energy per unit area equal to one calorie per square centimeter.
Origin:
1945–50; after S. P. Langley

Lang⋅land

  [lang-luhnd]
–noun
William, 1332?–c1400, English poet.
Also, Langley.
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lang·ley   (lāng'lē)   
n.   pl. lang·leys
A unit equal to one gram calorie per square centimeter of irradiated surface, used to measure solar radiation.

[After Samuel Pierpoint Langley.]
Lang·ley   (lāng'lē)   
A peak, 4,227.9 m (14,026 ft) high, in the Sierra Nevada of southern California.
Langley, Samuel Pierpoint 1834-1906.  
American astronomer and aviation pioneer who built the first successful heavier-than-air flying machines. He directed the Smithsonian Institution from 1887 to 1906.
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langley   (lāng'lē)  Pronunciation Key 
A unit equal to one gram calorie per square centimeter of irradiated surface, used to measure solar radiation. The langley is named after American astronomer and aeronautical pioneer Samuel Pierpont Langley (1834-1906).
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