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lamp survival factor
LSF
fraction of the total number of lamps which continue to operate at a given instant under defined conditions and the switching frequency
Note 1 to entry: The lamp survival factor has unit one.
Note 2 to entry: This entry was numbered 17-637 and 17-703 in CIE S 017:2011.