Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The International System unit of illumination, equal to one lumen per square meter.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To put out of joint; luxate. Pope, Odyssey, xi.
- noun Light: a Latin word occurring in some phrases used more or less in English.
- noun 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. - noun Luxury.
- noun Richness; superfine quality; elegance: said of material objects. Also
luxe , as mere French.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To put out of joint; to luxate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete, transitive To put
out of joint ; toluxate . - noun In the
International System of Units , thederived unit ofilluminance orillumination ; onelumen persquare metre . Symbol: lx
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a unit of illumination equal to 1 lumen per square meter; 0.0929 foot candle
Etymologies
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Examples
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What we are debating, lux, is Belief vs. Knowledge.
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It's a matter of if there's a measure of something called lux, which is a measure of the brightness of light.
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DreamsofProgress says: lux, that is patently and absolutely and unfailingly a dishonest argument.
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And they should produce 10,000 lux, which is the amount of brightness that we need according to research studies.
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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.”
A Handbook of Symbols in Christian Art Gertrude Grace Sill 1975
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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.”
A Handbook of Symbols in Christian Art Gertrude Grace Sill 1975
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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 Various
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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.
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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.
Archive 2005-05-01 2005
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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.
Archive 2005-05-01 2005
smilefeo commented on the word lux
Oh, this is the love-hate word on my list. I am on Lux, unapologetically feminine.
March 4, 2007
reesetee commented on the word lux
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.
November 6, 2007
thevirils commented on the word lux
The dear Lux Lisbon.
October 18, 2008