LEM
Americannoun
plural
LEMs, LEM'sacronym
Example Sentences
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I’m trying to sleep with the little window shade closed and I’m thinking, I got on top of that Saturn V to get here and now I’m lying around inside this LEM.
From Time • Dec. 13, 2012
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 • Dec. 13, 2012
"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 • Feb. 9, 2012
But the lender, LEM Mezzanine, could itself lose the hotel in coming months as a result of its filing for bankruptcy protection earlier this year.
From New York Times • Jun. 1, 2010
He couldn’t stop smiling, not even when he was describing the thermodynamics of the fuel for the Saturn rocket that would carry the command capsule and the LEM.
From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt
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