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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The International System unit of illumination, equal to one lumen per square meter. See Table at measurement.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To put out of joint; luxate. Pope, Odyssey, xi.
  2. n. Luxury.
  3. n. Richness; superfine quality; elegance: said of material objects. Also luxe, as mere French.
  4. n. Light: a Latin word occurring in some phrases used more or less in English.
  5. n. The unit of illumination; the illumination received by a surface at a distance of one meter from a light-source the intensity of which is one hefner. See illumination, 1.

Wiktionary

  1. n. In the International System of Units, the derived unit of illuminance or illumination; one lumen per square metre. Symbol: lx
  2. v. obsolete, transitive To put out of joint; to luxate.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. obsolete To put out of joint; to luxate.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a unit of illumination equal to 1 lumen per square meter; 0.0929 foot candle

Etymologies

  1. Compare French luxer. See luxate. (Wiktionary)
  2. Latin lūx, light; see leuk- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • thevirils The dear Lux Lisbon. Oct 18, 2008

  • reesetee A unit for measuring the illumination (illuminance) of a surface. One lux is defined as an illumination of one lumen per square meter or 0.0001 phot. Nov 6, 2007

  • smilefeo Oh, this is the love-hate word on my list. I am on Lux, unapologetically feminine. Mar 4, 2007

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