Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The International System unit of illumination, equal to one lumen per square meter. See Table at measurement.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To put out of joint; luxate. Pope, Odyssey, xi.
- n. Luxury.
- n. Richness; superfine quality; elegance: said of material objects. Also luxe, as mere French.
- n. Light: a Latin word occurring in some phrases used more or less in English.
- 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
- n. In the International System of Units, the derived unit of illuminance or illumination; one lumen per square metre. Symbol: lx
- v. obsolete, transitive To put out of joint; to luxate.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. obsolete To put out of joint; to luxate.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a unit of illumination equal to 1 lumen per square meter; 0.0929 foot candle
Etymologies
- Compare French luxer. See luxate. (Wiktionary)
- Latin lūx, light; see leuk- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“What we are debating, lux, is Belief vs. Knowledge.”
“It's a matter of if there's a measure of something called lux, which is a measure of the brightness of light.”
“DreamsofProgress says: lux, that is patently and absolutely and unfailingly a dishonest argument.”
“And they should produce 10,000 lux, which is the amount of brightness that we need according to research studies.”
“A light or lantern may be included as a reference to her wisdom, as well as a play on her name, from lux, the Latin word for “light.””
“They may scarcely realize that the ruby and the sapphire are the same mineral, and that this mineral also occurs, and is used in jewelry, absolutely colorless, when it is known as lux sapphire, green as the so-called”
Scientific American Supplement, No. 1082, September 26, 1896
“In some cases where the word has extensive normal usages, as in the case of 'lux' this is true of the English 'light' as well, depending on how one takes the word the same sentence can be treated as figurative or literal and mean basically the same thing.”
“In one of Aquinas's most interesting discussions, in a little-read article on whether the word 'lux' is properly used of spiritual things, Aquinas recognizes that the distinction between figurative and literal usage is one relative to how one takes the words in question.”
“E: Illumination, How the visibility of objects to be "lux”
“Luxury makes a comebackJaguar, Oakley, and other brands are trying to put the 'lux' back in luxury, despite the recession.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘lux’.
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3-Letter Scrabble Words Which Do Not ...
A list of 3-letter words which cannot be formed by adding a letter to a 2-letter word (see Ken Clark's word lists found at http://www.seattlescrab...
fiz, fix, fir, fig, fie, fib, eve, eke, egg, eek, ecu, ebb and 225 more...
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Palabras de 3 letras en Español.
¡La única lista que también incluye flexiónes verbales y pluralizaciones! Ayúdame a encontrarlas todas.
(Por ser una lista para Scrabble, los dígrafos ll, rr, y ch valen como una sola ...aba, aca, aga, ahe, ahi, aho, aja, aje, aji, ajo, ala, ale and 427 more...
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3-letter Scrabble Words
aah, aal, aas, aba, abo, abs, aby, ace, act, add, ado, ads and 995 more...
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phrontistery - l
from phrontistery.info
labarum, labefactation, labeorphily, labile, lability, labret, lac, laches, lacis, laic, lam?, lar and 496 more...
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bling
( open list, visual, light, descriptive )
more:
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even more:
sparkle, shine, gleam, glisten, shimmer, gloss, pearly, opalescent, iridescent, prismatic, multifaceted, glow and 35 more... -
Xcessive
Valid 3-letter words with an x. Also, longer words with more than one x in them.
wax, fix, tux, box, sex, max, six, aux, pox, hex, tax, mix and 78 more...
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I am : bright
Verbs and adjectives (mostly adjectives) pertaining to physical light, brightness and/or clarity.
bright, brilliant, ablaze, afire, aflame, incandescent, fluorescent, phosphorescent, lucent, lambent, transparent, clear and 29 more...
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Alternative energy concepts
Words that are becoming more important as we learn more about alternative and renewable energy sources.
microreactors, fuel cell, biomass, biofuel, algae, fission, fusion, turbine, hydrogen, solar, photovoltaic, solar thermal and 47 more...
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♥
ambrosia, inamorata, gossamer, lily-white, hummingbird, roucoulement, poppy, daisy, calypso, lunula, lamb, dove and 1526 more...
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X Marks the Spot
Words ending in "x" (except proper nouns and trademarks)
ax, ex, ox, soapbox, smallpox, six, sex, sax, rex, pressbox, climax, chickenpox and 208 more...
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erinnbatykefer's Words
ewer, lace, grenadine, wick, haruspex, augur, distal, proximal, supine, labyrinthine, rivers, monongahela and 176 more...
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3LW
3 letter words, not the girl band.
boggle and speed scrabble would not be half as fun without them.aah, boa, dot, fun, ick, log, oca, pyx, sos, was, aal, bob and 342 more...
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dark and bright words of shine and fi...
scotophil, scotoma, scotia, shed, shadow, shade, scone, whiting, edelweiss, light, lightning, lucina and 349 more...
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madmelanie's Words
monkey, folderol, snark, snarky, flibbertigibbet, faith, asshat, pirouette, avuncular, exegesis, memento mori, verisimilitude and 379 more...
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Some Words I Love to Use
arcology, strumpet, crux, confected, pedant, bluestocking, cogitation, incensed, lovecraftian, cygnet, dactyl, adytum and 539 more...
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MIX DES CULTURES
french words & english ones
des mots français & d'autres anglaisà gogo, tchétchène, faciès, déviant, gamin, superette, grigri, diantre, in jeopardy, syncope, primrose, menthe and 92 more...
Tweets
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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