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LEM

American  
[lem] / lɛm /

noun

plural

LEMs, LEM's
  1. lunar excursion module.


LEM British  
/ lɛm /

acronym

  1. lunar excursion module

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Forty years later he still does. ”Picture my environment,” he says of the last look he took around at the moonscape before he ascended the LEM ladder.

From Time • Dec. 13, 2012

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

"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