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lumen

SI unit of luminous flux (the amount of light passing through an area per second).

The lumen is defined in terms of the light falling on a unit area at a unit distance from a light source of luminous intensity of one candela. One lumen at a wavelength of 5,550 angstroms equals 0.0014706 watts.

lumen

In biology, the space enclosed by an organ, such as the bladder, or a tubular structure, such as the gastrointestinal tract.



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They fancy some foul, obscure den, some horrible Tartarus "informis, ingens, cui lumen ademptum.
- And afterwards, Non cui profundum Cæcitas lumen dedit Dircæus augur vidit hunc alto sinu, &c.
Above him was the throat of the balloon bunched and tied together, but with an open lumen through which,Bert could peer up into a vast, empty, quiet interior, and out of which descended two fine cords of unknown import, one white, one crimson, to pockets below the ring.
 
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