LEM
Americannoun
PLURAL
LEMs, LEM'sacronym
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These zip together, causing a friend to amusingly refer to them as the Command Module and the LEM.
From Forbes
Cernan and Schmitt ventured up to five miles from the safety of their LEM, aided in no small part by the lunar rover — effectively a collapsible moon car — that they’d brought along.
From Time
Armstrong’s and Aldrin’s entire time outside the LEM was 2 hrs. and 31 mins. — and in all that time they never wandered very far from the safety of their little ship.
From Time
"You know, this little device has more computing capacity—by a large order of magnitude—than we had to work with in the entire LEM."
From Inc
A DEM is the acronym for District Effectiveness Measure; LEM is the acronym for Leader Effectiveness Measure; and TEM — you guessed it, is the acronym for Teacher Effectiveness Measure.
From Washington Post
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