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LED & Lighting Terms Glossary

A

  • AC (or Alternating Current)
  • Accent lighting
  • Active Cooling
  • Addressable strip
  • Additive colour mixing
  • Adaptive lighting
  • ALA
  • Alteration (lighting alteration)
  • Amber LEDs
  • Ambient lighting
  • Amp (or Ampere or (A))
  • Application Specific (AS) LED Module
  • Anode
  • Analog dimming
  • Angular distribution
  • Anti-glare
  • Architectural lighting
  • Area lighting
  • Array (LED array)
  • Art-Net
  • Attenuation (Light Attenuation)
  • Avalanche photodiode

B

  • Backlight
  • Battery (or Power Pack)
  • Ballast Factor (Bf)
  • Base temperature
  • Bayonet Base
  • Beam angle
  • Binning 
  • Bi-Pin Base
  • Bleed (light bleed)
  • Bollard
  • Brightness
  • BUG Rating
  • Bulb
  • Burn-in (LED burn-in)
  • Burned-out condition

C

  • Cave Effect
  • Candela (cd) 
  • Canopy
  • Can light
  • COB
  • CCR (or Constant Current Reduction Dimming)
  • CCT (or Color Temperature or Correlated Color Temperature)
  • CRI (or Color Rendering Index)
  • Cut-off angle
  • Cutoff Luminaire 
  • Chip
  • Color Tuning
  • Controller
  • Cool White

D

DC (or Direct Current)
Density
Degradation
Discrete LED Module
Digital Addressable Lighting Interface(DALI) 
Dimmable driver
Dimmer
Diode
Diffuser
Direct lighting
Directional
Driver
DMX512
Driver Efficiency

E

Edison Base
Efficacy

F

Fibre optics 
Filter
Flicker
Fluorescent
Foot-candle
Fully Rated Life 

G

General lighting
Glare 

H

Halogen Lamp
Heat Dissipation
Heat Sink
High Power LEDs 
Housing

I

IES
Illuminance
Incandescent
Indirect lighting
Intensity
Insulating Layers
Isoluminance contour diagram(Isolux diagram) 
IP rating (or Ingress Protection rating)

K

KNX
Kelvin Temperature (K)

L

LED (or LED Chip or Light Emitting Diode)
LED Module
Light Bar
Light Strip (or Strip Light)
Lighting level
Luma
LED Array
Lumen (lm)
LED Driver
LED Chip
LED Package (Through-the-Hole)
LED Package (Surface Mount Device (SMD)
LED Package (High Power)
LED Package (Application Specific (AS)
LED Wafer
LM-70
Lumen Depreciation
Lumen Maintenance
Lumens per Watt (LPW) 
Lux (lx)
L70 
LED Efficiency 
LED Junction Temperature (TJ) 
Lens
Luminaire classification
Luminance
Luminous Efficacy
Luminous flux 

M

Milliamp (mA)
MOCVD
Multicolor

N

Neutral White
Nominal capacity

O

Omnidirectional
Optical Cut-off
Output
OLED

P

Phosphors
P/N Junction
Power Factor 
Power supply
PWM (or Pulse Width Modulation Dimming)
Printed Circuit Board (PCB) 
Protection mode

R

Radiant flux
Radiosity 
Reflector 
RGB
RGBW
Retrofit
Rock Light

S

SMD (or Surface Mounted Device)
Smart Lighting
Solderless connector
Solid State Lighting
Strip Light
System Design

T

Tape Light
Task Lighting
Thermal Efficiency
TM-21
Transformer
Transmission 

U

UL-Listed product
Ultraviolet radiation
Uniformity

V

  • Visible Light Spectrum
  • Volt (or (V))
  • Voltage drop
  • Vaporproof fixture
  • Variable Color Temperature (VCT)
  • Variance
  • Veiling reflection
  • Vertical illuminance
  • Very High Output (VHO)
  • Visual comfort probability (VCP)
  • Volumetric lighting
  • Voltage regulator
  • Voltage spike

W

  • Warm White (WW)
  • Wavelength (λ)
  • Warm Up Time
  • Water Resistance (IP Rating)
  • White LED (WLED)
  • Wireless Control

Z

  • Zener Diode
  • Zero-Brightness Level
  • Zenith Angle
  • Zigbee
  • Zoom Lens
  • Zonal Lighting
  • Zone Control
  • Zhaga Consortium
  • Zirconium Oxide (ZrO2)
  • Z-Axis Calibration

Welcome to the LED Lighting Blog

On this blog, we will discuss everything you need to know about LED lights, from how they work to how to choose the best ones for your needs. We will also share tips and tricks on how to save money and energy with LED lighting.

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