Medical Definition of Troland
1. A unit of visual stimulation at the retina equal to the illumination per square millimeter of pupil received from a surface of 1 lux brightness. Origin: L.T. Troland, U.S. Physicist, 1889-1932 (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Troland
Literary usage of Troland
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1920)
"troland has unpublished data from which he is able to determine a theoretical
course for the process of adaptation in all the adapting sense departments. ..."
2. Bulletin of the National Research Council by National Research Council (U.S.) (1922)
"BULLETIN OF THE NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL THE PRESENT STATUS OF VISUAL SCIENCE
BY LEONARD THOMPSON troland PUBLISHED BY THE NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL of the ..."
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