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    lm
    lumen; lumens.
  • LM
    LM
    lunar module.
  • L.M.
    L.M.
    abbreviation
    Licentiate in Medicine.

lm

1 American  
Optics.
  1. lumen; lumens.


LM 2 American  
[lem] / lɛm /
  1. lunar module.


L.M. 3 American  

abbreviation

  1. Licentiate in Medicine.

  2. Licentiate in Midwifery.

  3. Lord Mayor.


lm British  

symbol

  1. lumen

"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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I just wanted to say that lm still very sorry and I hope your getting better.

From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater

Put 4 over cd, under efg, over h, under ijk and over lm.

From Philippine Mats Philippine Craftsman Reprint Series No. 1 by Hugo H. Miller

The piece, lm, is then moved forward till the fringes again appear at m.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 633, February 18, 1888 by Various

Put 1 under cd, over efg, under h, over ijk and under lm.

From Philippine Mats Philippine Craftsman Reprint Series No. 1 by Hugo H. Miller

Larva of Platygaster in the second stage.—mo, mouth; slkf, œsophagus; gsae, supra-œsophagal ganglion; lm, muscles; bsm, nervous system; gagh, rudiments of the reproductive glands.

From On the Origin and Metamorphoses of Insects by Sir John Lubbock

Then last month, Google’s new Gemini 3 model blew past OpenAI on a closely watched third-party leaderboard of model performance called LM Arena.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 9, 2025

Mike Kimani, an independent trainer who works out of LM Fitness Center in Atwater, says his GLP-1 workouts are particularly data-driven.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 13, 2025

Police arrested an Indonesian man identified by his initial as LM, two Ukrainian men identified as IV and MV, and a Russian man identified as KK, during the raids.

From Seattle Times May 13, 2024

LM Siegel is a member of Defend Arlington, a campaign group that is part of that lawsuit.

From BBC Jul. 12, 2023

And similarly, having drawn another ray LM, and found its refraction MO, the point N will be found in this line, and so on as many times as one desires.

From Treatise on Light by Christiaan Huygens

In attempting to exit the area, according to the complaint, Agent L.M. opened the rear passenger door of the Border Patrol vehicle where Gomez was seated.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 11, 2025

Carl Hollister, president of the Cincinnati-based investment advisory firm L.M.

From Seattle Times Nov. 1, 2023

She wasn’t actually going to the companies with him, but basically, she wrote all of his books for him, sometimes credited as Lillian Gilbreth, sometimes as L.M.

From Scientific American Sep. 21, 2023

Exploring this tension through creative work isn’t new; one of the most touching subplots of L.M.

From Salon Jul. 13, 2019

The list recalls how much talent, beauty, and worth were at that time constellated here:— Mrs. George Bancroft, Mrs. Barlow, Miss Burley, Mrs. L.M.

From Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume I by Margaret Fuller

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