LUX

~ a unit of illumination, equivalent to 0.0929 foot-candle and equal to the illumination produced by luminous flux of one lumen falling perpendicularly on a surface one meter square.

SYMBOL: lx [Origin: 1885–90; < L lūx light1]

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