What's the color temperature for LEDs indicate?

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Specifically what does the color temperature on light bulbs it indicate? because, it clearly does not indicate the wavelength of max intensity.
 

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It is the temperature of the blackbody which is closest to the intensity spectrum of the bulb.
 
ah of course... i was only considering its derivative..

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