name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
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Standard Lemma guide
lux
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/lʌks/
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Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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homophone: lucks
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rhymes with -ʌks
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CMU ARPABET: L AH1 K S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
In the International System of Units, the derived unit of illuminance or illumination; one lumen per square metre. Symbol: lx
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:lux.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 3
To dislocate; to luxate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, transitive
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noun
Meaning 4
a unit of illumination equal to 1 lumen per square meter; 0.0929 foot candle
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: lx
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: illumination unit
History
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin lūx (“light”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“white; light; bright”). Cognates include Ancient Greek λευκός (leukós, “white, blank, light, bright, clear”), Ancient Greek λύκη (lúkē, “light, morning twilight”), Sanskrit रोचते (rocate), Middle Persian 𐭩𐭥𐭬 (rōz, “day”) and Old English lēoht (noun) (English light).
Compare French luxer. See luxate.
Across languages
Translations
21 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: лукс (luks) — the derived unit of illuminance
- Chinese Mandarin: 勒克斯 (lèkèsī) — the derived unit of illuminance
- Czech: lux — the derived unit of illuminance
- Esperanto: lukso — the derived unit of illuminance
- Finnish: luksi — the derived unit of illuminance
- French: lux — the derived unit of illuminance
- German: Lux — the derived unit of illuminance
- Greek: λουξ (loux) — the derived unit of illuminance
- Indonesian: lux — the derived unit of illuminance
- Italian: lux — the derived unit of illuminance
- Japanese: ルクス (rukusu) — the derived unit of illuminance
- Korean: 럭스 (reokseu) — the derived unit of illuminance
- Lithuanian: liuksas — the derived unit of illuminance
- Malay: lux — the derived unit of illuminance
- Polish: luks — the derived unit of illuminance
- Portuguese: lux — the derived unit of illuminance
- Romanian: lux — the derived unit of illuminance
- Russian: люкс (ljuks) — the derived unit of illuminance
- Spanish: lux — the derived unit of illuminance
- Swedish: lux — the derived unit of illuminance
- Thai: ลักซ์ (lák) — the derived unit of illuminance