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.

  • 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 Light: a Latin word occurring in some phrases used more or less in English.
  • To put out of joint; luxate. Pope, Odyssey, xi.
  • 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.

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

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

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin lūx, light; see leuk- in Indo-European roots.]

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From Latin lūx ("light"); from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“white; light; bright”). Cognates include Ancient Greek λευκός (leukos), Sanskrit रोचते (rocate) and Old English noun lēoht (English light).

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Compare French luxer. See luxate.

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Examples

  • What we are debating, lux, is Belief vs. Knowledge.

    Think Progress » Nelson signals intent to join Republican filibuster of Obama labor board nominee. (Updated) 2010

  • It's a matter of if there's a measure of something called lux, which is a measure of the brightness of light.

    CNN Transcript Dec 1, 2007 2007

  • DreamsofProgress says: lux, that is patently and absolutely and unfailingly a dishonest argument.

    Think Progress » Let The Cameras Roll 2010

  • And they should produce 10,000 lux, which is the amount of brightness that we need according to research studies.

    CNN Transcript Jan 21, 2006 2006

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

    On Some Misconceptions About Figurative Language 2005

  • 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

  • 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

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

    March 4, 2007

  • 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

  • The dear Lux Lisbon.

    October 18, 2008