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Word: Lumen
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
late 19th century: from Latin, literally ‘light’
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
ˈl(j)uːmɪn
Dialects: British English
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
ˈl(j)uːmɛn
Dialects: British English
Definition:
the SI unit of luminous flux, equal to the amount of light emitted per second in a unit solid angle of one steradian from a uniform source of one candela.
Short Definition:SI unit of luminous flux, equal to amount of light emitted per second in unit solid angle of one steradian from uniform source of one candela
Variant Forms:
- lm
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