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large source, <in photobiology>
source for which the size of the source image on the retina is so large that radial heat flow from the centre of the image to the surrounding biological tissue is negligibly small compared to heat flow in the axial direction
Note 1 to entry: This entry was numbered 17-641 in CIE S 017:2011.