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Lumen   /lˈumən/   Listen
Lumen

noun
(pl. L. lumina, E. lumens)
1.
A unit of luminous flux equal to the amount of light given out through a solid angle of 1 steradian by a point source of 1 candela intensity radiating uniformly in all directions.  Synonym: lm.
2.
A cavity or passage in a tubular organ.





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"Lumen" Quotes from Famous Books



... mind,"—a phrase which it is difficult to construe otherwise than as an admission that he had written the Dedicatory Epistle, but had employed the familiar quotation there ("monstrum horrendum, informe, ingens, cui lumen ademptum") only metaphorically. All in all, then, the authorship of the Dedicatory Epistle, as well as the editorship and adoption of the whole anonymous book, is fastened upon Morus. With this amount of responsibility ...
— The Life of John Milton, Volume 5 (of 7), 1654-1660 • David Masson


Words linked to "Lumen" :   cavity, luminous flux unit, bodily cavity, cavum


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