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LEM

American  
[lem] / lɛm /

noun

  • LEMs,
    plural
  • LEM's
    plural
  1. lunar excursion module.


LEM British  
/ lɛm /

acronym

  1. lunar excursion module

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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

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

This represented approximately 70% of LEM's revenue of EUR 11.2 million for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2005.

From Time Magazine Archive

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