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waidner-burgess standard \|wīdnər|bərjə̇s-\ noun Usage: usually capitalized W&B Etymology: after Charles W. Waidner died 1922 and George K. Burgess died 1932 American physicists : a unit of luminous intensity equal to the luminous intensity of one square centimeter of ideal blackbody at the freezing point of platinum or to 60 candles |